Operation Rubicon (novel)
Operation Rubikon is the title of a novel by Andreas Pflüger that was published by Herbig Verlag in 2004 and reprinted by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2016 . Pflüger worked for five years on this thriller, which is also a social novel. He also wrote the script for the film adaptation of the same name.
content
Wolf, the head of the Federal Criminal Police Office , takes stock of a life in the police force. He looks back on a life as a functionary, as a servant of the German state. "You killed what you love, with what you hate live," he thinks, referring to the alienation from his family.
The novel tells how Wolf saved the country for which he betrayed his family from international cartels and found his inner peace. His last mission is his most important, he goes under the cover name "Rubicon".
Andreas Pflüger paints a picture of the state on the eve of a takeover by international cartels. "Operation Rubikon" is about how a couple of policemen around the old wolf and his daughter Sophie, lawyer for the Federal Prosecutor's Office , try to prevent what hardly seems to change: the control of the German government by a transcontinental operating mafia of drugs and weapons - and traffickers. Two powers face each other, money and law.
background
During the research for his novel, Pflüger took advice from Hans-Ludwig Zachert , the former head of the Federal Criminal Police Office . Hence his insights into the difficult-to-untangle network of the German intelligence and police authorities: Federal Intelligence Service , Military Counter-Intelligence Service , Federal Criminal Police Office, Federal Prosecutor's Office . Information is hoarded instead of passed on, intelligence becomes secret knowledge. This creates fatal gaps in the internal security system. "Operation Rubicon" shows what happens when the OK, organized crime , finds these loopholes and uses them.
On eight hundred pages, Pflüger unfolds a network of corruption and money laundering, of drug and arms trafficking.
expenditure
- Operation Rubicon. 2004. FA Herbig. ISBN 3-7766-2385-3
- Operation Rubicon. 2006. Rowohlt paperback. ISBN 3-49924090-4
- Operation Rubicon. 2016. Suhrkamp Verlag ISBN 978-3-518-46740-4
- Operation Rubicon. 2020. Suhrkamp Verlag ISBN 978-3-518-47051-0
Movie
- Operation Rubicon. Directed by Thomas Berger , screenplay by Andreas Pflüger 2002. [1]