The thriller author Bernhard Aichner likes neither conflicts nor true crime. Both take him too far
Mr. Aichner, suddenly it happened: In your sports bag there are twelve kilos of cocaine. A coincidence, a mix-up. What are you doing with that stuff?
Of course I’d take it with me. Although. No I dont know. Actually, I’m a pants shit. Yes, what do I do now?
Rita Dalek, the heroine of your 2019 thriller The Find, doesn’t hesitate. In the camp, the supermarket clerk takes home a crate of bananas and coke from Colombia, even though she knows it could mean her death sentence.
You understand. She is in her mid-50s and her husband is difficult. She has no money. She senses the chance for a new life.