Wolf heart

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Wolf Heart is a 1997 first published horror - novel by German author Wolfgang Hohlbein , in which he the theme of the werewolf used, which he later also in other works such as his chronicle of the immortals treated.

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Somewhere in the former Yugoslavia , the journalists Stefan and Rebecca Mewes meet with a Russian mercenary captain . The supposed exclusive interview ends in a catastrophe, because its leader, the alleged Austrian Wissler, turns out to be an American secret agent and kills the mercenary leader.

The three flee into a dark valley in which Rebecca finds an abandoned toddler. When she tries to take it, wolves attack the small group and seriously injure Rebecca. You can save yourself and take the girl with you to Germany , where Rebecca wants to adopt her. Wissler promises to help the Mewes with this, but before that happens there are several brutal murders of members of the hospital staff.

At the same time, Stefan and Rebecca feel that they are beginning to change: their senses are sharpened, their physical strength is superhuman. More and more often Stefan is overtaken by animal instincts. However, these soon prove useful, because the men of the Russian who was murdered by Wissler come to Germany under the leadership of his son to seek revenge. At the same time, strange hybrid creatures appear in the city that bear a terrifying resemblance to the legendary werewolves - they want to bring the foundling "back home".

Stefan and Rebecca flee with the little girl they named Eva and hide with Rebecca's rich brother. When the werewolves and the mercenaries appear at his villa at the same time, all hell breaks loose: the Russians fight a brutal battle with the police who are also advancing , while those trapped in the house have to cope with the attacks of the angry werewolves. Finally, with the help of Wissler, they succeed in killing the wolves. He tells the mercenaries that the animals killed their leader.

So everyone moves back together to the little valley that the locals call Wolfsherz. The Russians begin exterminating the old pack of werewolf while Wissler tries to kill Stefan. The American planned all of this as a private campaign of revenge , because once the wolves killed his wife. Rebecca and Eva, who have since turned into wolves, kill the American before he can harm Stefan. So the mercenaries and the werewolves kill each other. Stefan, Rebecca and Eva are waiting and preparing to start a new pack.

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Like many Hohlbein novels, this one does not have a happy ending in the classic sense and leaves the central characters in a new, frightening situation. Particular parallels can be seen with Dunkel , which appeared in 1999 , in which a similar plot developed on the basis of the vampire myth.

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