Helmut Everke

Where our story takes place, only the chickens know what stress means. Otherwise, life in the countryside is quiet, so it's no wonder that the annual "stallion auction" is the highlight of cultural life—an event where the highest-bidding ladies can bid on a rendezvous with the most handsome young farmers.

Simon, the leader of a police special unit, becomes caught up in a complex scheme involving bribery and money-laundering, as well as an affair with the beautiful wife of a government official investigating organized crime and political corruption. After the official is kidnapped, the chase leads to a dramatic conclusion high in the Bavarian Alps.

October 1982: The entire German political scene is corrupt, the German government a puppet of the USA. To play it safe, the CIA replaces German politicians with compliant doubles. When the chancellor's doppelganger, of all people, is to be taken out of circulation, the secret service accidentally kills the real chancellor, who is floating dead in the swimming pool. Agent Erwin of the Federal Criminal Police Office is assigned to solve the case...

Banker Doris has everything you need for a career except testosterone. Time and again, the young employee is passed over for promotion. Now Philip is put in front of her. The charmer quickly turns out to be a macho pig: first he dismisses Doris' best friend, then he becomes pushy. Only now does the gray mouse finally give him a piece of her mind.

The dream of writing seems to come true for trained pharmacist Kim Garben when she is commissioned to write a heartbreak story as a serialized novel for a newspaper. However, Kim, who has been sorely disappointed by men, finds it difficult to write a love story of all things. But then comes the saving idea: she simply hooks up with her lovesick neighbor Ludger, who has just been dumped by his girlfriend.