Book signing for the crime novel with Marc Voltenauer and Nicolas Feuz

Join us at the Leysin library for a book signing of the new crime novel *Imperium* by Marc Voltenauer and Nicolas Feuz. Afterwards, do come along for a drink.

A contemporary thriller co-written by the two leading lights of Swiss crime fiction. Two authors, two readerships, one book.

Book summary

A man is thrown under a train at Neuchâtel station. A violent altercation in the Gotthard Tunnel. Two seemingly isolated incidents that will lead Prosecutor Jemsen and Inspector Auer into the heart of a criminal empire of unsuspected scale.

Behind these news items lies Imperium, an organisation structured like a state, which has infiltrated the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and is distributing a narcotic of unprecedented potency – Crackmeth – throughout Switzerland. Its tentacles extend as far as the Geneva Free Ports and the shadowy circles of the art market.

Every step forward taken by the investigators triggers a counter-attack. Witnesses disappear. Evidence vanishes. And in the shadows, an enforcer nicknamed ‘The Falcon’ ensures that the Empire remains untouchable.

A breathless thriller in which the line between servants of the state and servants of the Empire proves to be more porous than one might imagine.