Juli Zee is a young but already famous German writer. Her first novel, Eagles and Angels, won the 2001 German Book Prize for best debut and won at least a dozen other European awards. Now Tsee is the author of four novels, her works have been translated into thirty-five languages. The hero of Tsee’s debut novel, a talented international lawyer Max, somewhat reminiscent of the characters of Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass, is experiencing a terrible shock: his beloved shot herself at the moment when he was speaking with her on the phone. Dousing himself with drugs so as not to go crazy, Max goes to Vienna, where he tries to find a solution to the inexplicable suicide, although deep down he already knows the answer: “eagles and angels”—the arbiters of “justice” in the modern world—are involved in Jesse’s tragedy.< /p>