Fire (hollow leg)
Fire is a first time in 2004 published thriller with horror - and fantasy elements of Wolfgang Hohlbein and to flood his second apocalypse thriller.
action
A series of mysterious fires broke out in Cologne , the cause of which no one could find an explanation. The car thief Will Lokkens meanwhile has other problems: no sooner has he cracked another car than he drives into a frightened little girl. When he follows him to a burned-out villa, he is attacked by strangers and has to watch as they bring the girl into their power. After Will has done his job and delivers the stolen car to Georg, the well-known fence and brothel owner, a vehicle fire breaks out and the kidnapper's car falls victim. The next day, the girl, who managed to escape her kidnappers before the vehicle fire broke out and introduces herself as Duffy, seeks refuge with Will, who shortly thereafter also receives a visit from two criminal investigators.
Suddenly a blonde woman appears, incapacitates Will and the police officers with a stun gun and kidnaps Duffy when the house is suddenly hit by an earthquake-like shock; the beginning of a lava eruption in the middle of Cologne, to which Chief Inspector Reimann and his colleague fall victim and from which Will can barely escape. He finds refuge with Georg, who promptly wants to betray him to the blonde kidnapper. After a successful escape, Will pursues Duffy and the kidnappers and sets them up only to find out that behind the kidnapping is his former girlfriend Martina, who has since become rich through her marriage to her husband, who has since died. This reveals to him that Duffy is not only hers, but also his daughter, who has a supernatural ability to set fire. When Duffy starts a fire again and flees, she is kidnapped by Georg's thugs who were after Will.
With the ransom in his luggage, Will drives to Cologne, where the fires are piling up. In the catacombs of the city there is the final: Georg is not interested in the money, but rather an artifact from a bygone era that Wieland the blacksmith created with the help of the dragon fire that Loki brought to the people and now haunted Cologne Can control dragon fire. Georg reveals to Will that he is the last heir to Wieland's blacksmiths' guild and that he, Georg, a descendant of Fenrir the wolf-faced, who has been looking for Nidud's ring since the beginning of time in order to be able to control the dragon fire. Now the visions of fire disasters of yesteryear that plagued Will since childhood make sense. With Duffy's help, Will defeats his opponent Georg and prevents Cologne from falling.
background
Hohlbein quotes in the novel from Germanic sagas of gods and heroes. Thus, Fenrir , the fire god Loki and the conflagration that is conjured up in fire, elements of Germanic mythology .
expenditure
- Hohlbein, Wolfgang: Feuer Weltbild, 2004
- Hohlbein, Wolfgang: Feuer Knaur paperbacks, January 2006