A tale of three cities

In the 1990s, New York, Berlin and Johannesburg were in the midst of radical mutation. Each hosts a story of loss, alienation and rediscovery. Different spaces, distinct styles but unified under the ominous yoke of death and regeneration.

Die Quotenmaschine

Welcome to Manhattan, where the “Quotenmachine” people are freely drifting through the night city, full of drugs, in sexual ecstasy or otherwise on the run from this story and their own biographies.

Mitte

Mitte reveals the secrets of an old building that is full of stories from the cellar to the attic. A gothic novel, ghost story, and gripping portrait of central Berlin. The cult novel of the ‘90s.

Ponte City

After the fall of Apartheid, young Lucy Tshabalala moves from Soweto to Ponte City, the most dangerous apartment building in the world. An urban adventure story and gripping portrait of Johannesburg, a city in transformation.

Turning to the past

After spending a decade subsumed in frenetic urban culture, it was time to look back into where it all got started. How might a contemporary perspective and literary sensibility discover untold stories among the dusty historical archives? The result is a bestselling history about the Nazis’ use of drugs, a historical novel and my newest work about a Berlin resistance group during World War II.

Blitzed

The world bestseller that forever changed how we see Nazi Germany, and World War II.

Die Gleichung des Lebens

The historical crime novel set in the 18th century in a large swamp east of Berlin, where a ruthless and highly-refined murderer is about to strike again.

The Bohemians

The story Hitler didn’t want you to read: the largest resistance network in Berlin against the Nazi dictatorship. A breathtaking tale of love in the darkest of times.

Tripped

A provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA research and secretly shaped the War on Drugs