SILENT SKIES Volume One – a political thriller by Sam Thorne

What really happened on Flight 8414? What would a meticulous – investigation bring to light – beyond the official explanations? Was it a technical or a political failure that led to the catastrophe? Was there a calculation – or was it an attack?

SILENT SKIES is a fast-paced, investigative thriller about the highest price of a cover-up:

150 lives

When an aircraft of the German airline »Germanair« crashes in the French Alps, 150 people die.

Investigators and media quickly present a seemingly clear-cut explanation: the co-pilot deliberately brought the plane down.

But for Sophie Thalberg, a Berlin-based journalist – and the co-pilot’s former partner – this picture makes no sense. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes: her ex-boyfriend wasn’t the problem. A system that needs someone to blame was.

Together with Till Gorny, a security consultant with a military past, she follows the trail behind the official narrative: missing data, manipulated evidence, political interests, orchestrated lies.

What they uncover reaches far beyond the crash – deep into a system that shapes and destroys truth however it serves its purpose.

SILENT SKIES is a literary political thriller about love and loss, about truth and lies – and about how much courage it takes when the whole world believes a story that isn’t true.

About the book:

“Sam Thorne has created a novel in SILENT SKIES that masterfully combines literary depth with gripping suspense.

The starting point is the crash of a passenger aircraft, but at the centre lies the question of how truth is made – and how it disappears beneath political, legal and media interests. Within hours, a culprit is named. Other possible causes and connections are never seriously considered. Within a powerful web of manipulation and cover-up, this hardens into a fateful “confirmation bias”

SILENT SKIES is a literary political thriller of international calibre: atmospherically dense, gripping and thought-provoking in equal measure – a book that gets under your skin and doesn’t let go.”

EXCERPT

The (print-on-demand) book and the eBook can be purchased through the following retailers

in German, English and French:

(The audiobook and Volume Two are in preparation)

SILENT SKIES

German edition, 708 pages

ISBN 978-3-819-43736-6

26,99 €

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SILENT SKIES

German eBook

ISBN 978-3-819-43750-2