Lena Voss · Book 2

GLUTZONE

Sometimes a decision is right. And still not innocent.

Beneath Naples, the ground is rising. Not suddenly, not unambiguously, but steadily enough that Lena Voss is called in to assess whether the region is prepared for an evacuation.

The Campi Flegrei don’t sit alone in an empty landscape. They lie beneath streets, homes, nursing homes, and harbors. The plans are clean, and the numbers look defensible. But every plan only works as long as all its assumptions hold at the same time.

At Lena’s side is Sofia Esposito, a volcanologist from Pozzuoli who knows the ground beneath the city better than any plan does, and who knows what an unnecessary evacuation can do to a city.

And then there’s a question in the room that nobody likes to answer: how early can you move people out of their homes when the disaster hasn’t been proven yet?

Read a sample: “Look Inside” on Amazon · The books are published in German.

Characters

• Lena VossOceanographer at the ICRU in Hamburg, following a falling line
• Kai SörensenFS Nordmark captain, eight years without a word to Lena
• Lukas AhrensOceanographer at Lena’s side, died at sea eight years ago
• Sofia EspositoVolcanologist at the Osservatorio Vesuviano, grew up in Pozzuoli
• Lorenzo De SantisRegional civil protection, chairs the meeting at the Prefecture
• Matteo RinaldiThe nursing home’s daily routine all runs through him
• Paolo FerraraInfrastructure office, drew much of the zone map
• Frau BelliniResident of the Pozzuoli nursing home, with her own cup
• De FilippoNursing home resident in Pozzuoli who believes it’s 1966

Places

• Naples and PozzuoliA city in a volcano’s hollow, on ground that’s rising