Their methods are agile, they are proactive and present lasting and scalable solutions – top managers live in a different sphere. Up where the air is thin, and a single faux pas can mean tumbling into the abyss. But now women are finding their way into the tie-wearers’ habitat, and remote work, so beloved among employees, is making leadership appear to be all mouth and no trousers. The challenges are becoming ever more diverse. Who can still be trusted, and who can’t? The top squad is losing its grip.

Noah is an artist in his early 30s. His girlfriend Camillaʼs salary is just about enough for them both to live on. But Camilla wants more from life, and so she breaks up with Noah. Sheʼs following her head rather than her heart, but if she doesnʼt take charge of her future now, when will she? Noah is willing to do anything to win back his lost love. When an elderly woman offers him the chance of making a fortune, he ventures into a dubious deal with her.

Although Martin Suter and Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre like to celebrate life, from time to time they also turn their attention to serious matters — in the form of existential events. In this volume, they want and need to ask themselves the big, ultimate questions; yet they see it as a question of style to never deny themselves a punch line. Humour as a survival strategy, and laughter as a release — these two writers show us how it's done.

The second instalment of the conversations between two unlikely friends - tackling existential topics with an unflinchingly comic gaze.

Allmen meets a cultured gentleman of around his age in a bar – Adrian Weynfeldt. His family name, of course, is one the art detective is familiar with. Their encounter marks the beginning of an unusual friendship. A short while later, when Weynfeldt notices a picture is missing from his collection, he consults Allmen. Weynfeldt’s eccentric circle of friends seems reluctant to talk, all except the bookseller who specialises in art titles. But before long, she’s no longer able to, and Allmen is facing his first murder case.

In a villa on Zurich’s hillside lives aging Dr Stotz, surrounded by portraits of a young woman. Melody was once his fiancée, but shortly before the wedding – more than forty years ago – she vanished. Stotz has never recovered from his loss.

To organise his estate, Stotz hires a young student who urgently needs this job. Little by little, Tom begins to wonder whether Stotz is really who he pretends to be.
On a Greek island, he stumbles across a peculiar trail.

Bastian Schweinsteiger, the hero of the 2014 World Cup Final in Rio, is also the hero of Martin Suter’s latest novel. The author weaves in true (and almost true) details about the life of a man who achieved everything it is possible to achieve as a footballer. Yet Schweinsteiger also knows what it’s like to fail, and he’s no stranger to the dark side of success. This is the moving story of an extraordinary career – and a touching love story.

Two writers offer an insight into their conversations. Whether on a sun lounger or at the bar, by the sea or in the city, these two are fizzing with wit. Everything is potential material for conversation: swimming trunks, weddings, glitter, LSD, cooking, money, birthdays - the more everyday or odd it is, the better! And because no life is purely fun, not even for the famous, the conversations even take a serious turn at times. But only at times.

While private investigator Johann Friedrich von Allmen and his assistant Carlos are still celebrating the successful recovery of the valuable Dahlia picture, Carlos’ life partner Maria Moreno disappears. Not a lovers’ tiff, as Allmen’s factotum assumes at first, but the brutal revenge of those who feel they were robbed. Maria in exchange for the Dahlia picture – that is the kidnappers’ demand. But they did not reckon with old Dalia Gutbauer. For she is unwilling to hand over the picture, and has her own ideas about what she wants to do with it. This, of course, puts Allmen, Carlos and Maria in an extremely precarious situation. They need to act fast, and they all give their best in a dramatic race against time.