Cryptologist

National bestseller in Germany.

SOLVE OR DIE.

Right palm — 57. Left palm — 54. Right foot — 507. Left foot — 343. What does this mean? The countdown has begun…
The wife of the controversial journalist Annalena Winczer has been murdered and... thrown into a sewage tunnel near the Dresden Opera. The killer carved a strange combination of numbers on her limbs. The eight-year-old daughter of the victim, Liliana, was kidnapped along with her mother and is apparently still in the hands of the maniac. What if the numbers are a code leading to the girl? Then only the one police cryptologist in Saxony can solve it.
Cryptologist Arne Stiller had once already saved people's lives with his talent for decoding ciphers. But a year ago he was disgracefully expelled from the police after he attacked the Minister of the Interior. And now he has been brought back… In an atmosphere of general distrust, Stiller must once again prove what he is capable of.
Meanwhile, the kidnapped girl also needs to solve a numerical puzzle written by the maniac on her stomach. Otherwise, a sad fate awaits her too…