Frank Schätzing: The fox is back

Jacob the Fox should have been long dead; There have been plenty of opportunities to die since he was a child: murder and arson by gangs; super-powered assassins; Merchant families who know too much about it. But Jacob is a fox, not only because of his red hair, but also a man with many lives. This is why even its creator could not put it underground, even if he tried to do so: According to the best-selling German author Frank Schätzing, there will be no sequel to his debut novel “Death and the Devil”, as he said. more literature in the future. Until Schätzing had a brilliant idea in the shower. “Heroes” is the result of a wild ride through the late Middle Ages, a thriller about the birth of capitalism, an exploration of strong women and the early aspirations of Brexit.