Lena Voss · Book 3

TIEFENSCHLAG

The first wave was only 60 centimeters. The second came after the all-clear had already been written.

In an old file, Lena Voss finds a form that wasn’t written for her: an approval with no signature, and a blacked-out name of which only an O remains.

Eleven years earlier, in a power plant deep in an Alpine valley, someone heard something and wrote it down. Now the shift supervisor is hearing the knock again. Below the dam lie a village, a school, and a nursing home with 47 residents.

Lena has to warn people before the numbers look good enough. Then the North Sea speaks up.

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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
• Dr. Adrian FalkPanel assessor who accepts only what has been measured
• Tilda ImhofShift supervisor inside the mountain, hears what no screen shows
• Konrad ZieglerInnkeeper in Unterdorn and chief of the fire department
• Xaver NaglYoung control room operator who reads off the log
• The Plant ManagerDorn power plant manager, clutching his sheet of paper
• UlrikeSpeaks for Unterdorn’s nursing home and its 47 residents
• OttoKonrad’s brother, drives the school bus over the one bridge
• Wanda ImhofTilda’s mother, lives 300 meters below the dam

Places

• The DornA short, fast mountain river, dammed above a village
• UnterdornThe village below the dam, with one bridge out
• Dorn Reservoir (Dam and Power Plant)Reservoir, dam, and a power plant deep in the mountain
• The Town at the ConfluenceWhere the valley ends and the only road leads

Things

• The FormAn old form, a blacked-out name, an O