Glogger Beat 2018After studying Microbiology and Biochemistry at Zurich University, Beat Glogger trained as a journalist at MAZ Luzern and worked as a science journalist for television and print media for fourteen years. For twelve years he was the host of science magazine MTW on Swiss public TV. Beat was a correspondent and freelance TV producer in Latin America for three years and published several non-fiction books and two novels. With his own Scitec-Media agency for science communication he is a consultant to various public and private science projects. He received several awards for ably combining facts and fiction in his work.

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 Books
75713

ZWEIMALTOT

Science Thriller
Reinhardt (2019)
280 pp

TWICEDEAD

When the steel door clangs shut behind her, Tina Benz wakes up from her stupor. She doesn't know why she is being detained, and it doesn't help that they told her that Frank Stern is "alive". "Alive" as in "not quite dead"?

As a leading neuroscientist, Stern develops brain-machine-interfaces, electronic devices that are linked with a person's neural system. Tina, his brilliant assistant, had found Frank unconscious in front of the institute, with no trace of who had attacked him. The analysis of his cell phone shows hundreds of phone calls from unidentified callers just before his "accident". Police begin their investigations, and Tina gets caught up in contradictions.

Beat Glogger combines cutting-edge science with a personal story to a fast-paced thriller that asks crucial ethical questions in the guise of a chilling story.

69375

LAUF UM MEIN LEBEN

Science Thriller
Rowohlt (2008)
379 pp

RUN FOR MY LIFE

Jesse Brown is the world's fastest track runner. He is consistent, invincible and obviously infallible. While other athletes around him get involved in doping scandals, he remains clean.

When several fellow athletes suddenly die under horrible circumstances doping investigators make a frightening discovery: the victims had undergone genetic manipulation. Is this the secret of Jesse's dominance? A race for life and death begins.

The author conjures a terrifying 'brave new world' where man is improved by means of genetic experimentation. All the medical facts are cutting edge and scientifically grounded. The novel is a fast-paced and scary science-thriller that never departs one inch from our immediate reality. It's this quality that makes it so nightmarish.

A partial English translation is available.

www.lauf-um-mein-leben.ch

70226 

XENESIS

Science Thriller
Rowohlt (2004)
384 pp


Rights sold:
Slovakia: IKAR;
Czech Republic: Knihy ABZ;
Israel: Yanshuf;

XENESIS

Scientists had finally found a way to supply enough donor organs by genetically engineering animals and transplanting their organs to humans. For many years xenotransplantation was considered safe, until...

Two babies are dying painfully from an unknown disease. When young doctor Narcy tries to identify the disease, she is fired. She joins forces with television reporter Matthew Gallagher to find the virus and the people who try to cover up the deaths. A race against time begins as the body count rises. At the same time people with kidney transplants around the world begin to disappear...

XENESIS was nominated for the European Union Commission's »Descartes Prize for Science Communication« in 2007.

www.xenesis.ch