Andreas Pritzker: 7 books

Alice works at a bookshop in Zurich. When she flies to the U.S.A. to attend her uncle’s funeral in Milwaukee, it leads to a long trip around the country in the footsteps of her own past as a country singer – and this journey opens a window into a promising future.

The protagonist of this story is Damian Trank – the great-grandson of Gerold Trank, whose narrative was recounted by the author in Time Reclaimed. The year is 2085. Damian Trank’s brain gets damaged in an accident. Thanks to the possibilities of modern medical science, it can be restored, but the...

Thirty-nine-year-old Juan Zinniker is wealthy, successful in business, active in scientific research, extremely attractive, and seems to be made of the stuff that magnetically attracts women – that’s how one tabloid magazine described him. But as we follow Juan for three fateful weeks, we discover...

A research project promising an innovative way of generating energy, torn between science and economy; a scientist, moving between different realities and starting to doubt them all; the industrial working environment, with its emotional deficiencies and its missing connection with nature; an European,...

Thomas Kremer, an investigator for the Zurich prosecutor’s office, is looking into a case of possible corruption that relates to the sale of a private clinic. Kremer, a maverick, always thinks for himself; he can never be talked into believing anything. While obsessively investigating the case, he...

Gerold Trank, a thirty-nine year old historian, works as secretary of the renowned Swiss 'Foundation for the Propagation of Humanistic Ideals'. Founded over one hundred and fifty years ago and funded by commerce and industry, the organization supports traditional – and only traditional – cultural...

In the nineteen-sixties, in a civilized city in proper little Switzerland, a mysterious murder happens which takes twenty years to solve. The main characters are four old friends who meet regularly to play cards: Arnold Wiederkehr, detective; Franz Filbert, left-wing politician and journalist – the...