George Bracke Thriller #9 – Zenith

Book George Bracke Thriller #9 – Zenith

George Bracke is returning from an international security conference in Berlin when strange messages begin appearing on his private phone.

Watch your step.

The world is in danger.

At first, George dismisses the warnings as the work of a crank. But very few people know his private number, and the messages keep coming.

Back in Ghent, problems are mounting. A corruption scandal threatens to shake the police force, former detective André Cornelis is being terrorised by an unknown enemy, and Commissioner Abdel Hassim is struggling to return to work after a serious accident.

Elsewhere, Bruno is fighting a very different battle. Living alone with his animals, he experiences visions, sounds and flashes of light that he cannot explain. Yet one conviction becomes increasingly powerful: something terrible is about to happen, and somehow he must prevent it.

Then Berlin is attacked.

A coordinated series of terrorist strikes throws the city into chaos and sends security services across Europe into high alert. George becomes involved in the international hunt for the surviving attackers, following a trail that crosses national borders and leads into extremist networks stretching far beyond Germany.

While investigators rely on intelligence, surveillance and forensic evidence, the mysterious messages continue to reach George.

And Bruno is moving towards the same danger for reasons nobody fully understands.

Zenith is the ninth George Bracke thriller. Moving from Ghent and Berlin to North Africa, the novel combines terrorism, radicalisation, corruption, loyalty and international police work with a more unsettling question: where does intuition end and the inexplicable begin?

Each novel in the ten-book series contains a complete investigation and can be read independently, while George Bracke, his family and his colleagues continue to develop throughout the series.

Short description

The ninth George Bracke thriller. Mysterious warnings, a corruption scandal and coordinated terrorist attacks in Berlin draw George Bracke into an international investigation stretching from Ghent across Europe to North Africa.

Stefaan Van Laere is a Belgian author, journalist and publisher who has been writing professionally since 1988. Over more than three decades, he has published fiction and non-fiction across a wide range of genres, including crime, historical fiction, biography, sport, social commentary, food and drink, and technology.

He is the founder and publisher of Partizaan and previously worked as editor-in-chief of Seniorennet.be. He is also a contributor to Boomager, a Belgian platform aimed at readers who approach later life with curiosity, independence and humour.

His books have appeared in Dutch and in translations including English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Italian.

The ten George Bracke thrillers combine police investigation, psychological tension, international intrigue and dry humour with the personal lives of characters who continue to evolve throughout the series.