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The Zürichberg Dossier
At this altitude, Zurich makes no sound. On the heights of the Zürichberg, where old money hides behind cream plaster walls and nameless brass plaques, six families are fighting for survival. Their empires-built over generations through Swiss precision, banking secrecy, and industrial might-are crumbling under the weight of their own legacy. Kaspar Bodmer, eighty-two, trembles with an incurable neurodegenerative disease.
His children are already petitioning the courts to have him declared incompetent. A single clandestine infusion could restore his mind-but at what cost to his soul?Conrad Landolt's family office has been crippled by a surgical ransomware attack. Thirty-seven offshore structures are locked. His only son is spiraling into addiction. And the authorities are closing in. Dieter Schulthess discovers that a cyberattack has been injected through his own heartbeat-a Holter monitor altered in the medical supply chain.
His energy empire's future hinges on a vote that is now in jeopardy. Heinrich Sulzer-Burckhardt learns that the traitor is within his own walls: a junior analyst whose gambling debts were bought by a Gulf sovereign fund. His Asian factories are about to vanish into a legal vacuum. Jürg Pestalozzi faces a joint customs raid on his art collection in the Geneva Freeports, a simultaneous cyberattack, and a devastating offer: sell to Abu Dhabi or lose everything.
And Matthias Kepler, dying of pancreatic cancer, must reconcile with a depressive heir, a rebellious daughter, and a Congo cobalt deal that threatens to destroy the empire he spent sixty years building. The Zürichberg Dossier is a collection of six interconnected novellas that read like a Swiss version of Succession-a cold, surgical exploration of power, inheritance, and the invisible wars fought over billions in the most discreet hill in Europe.
No heroes. No villains. Only functionaries, believers, exhausted patriarchs, and collateral victims. For fans of John le Carré, Robert Harris, and the TV series Succession.
His children are already petitioning the courts to have him declared incompetent. A single clandestine infusion could restore his mind-but at what cost to his soul?Conrad Landolt's family office has been crippled by a surgical ransomware attack. Thirty-seven offshore structures are locked. His only son is spiraling into addiction. And the authorities are closing in. Dieter Schulthess discovers that a cyberattack has been injected through his own heartbeat-a Holter monitor altered in the medical supply chain.
His energy empire's future hinges on a vote that is now in jeopardy. Heinrich Sulzer-Burckhardt learns that the traitor is within his own walls: a junior analyst whose gambling debts were bought by a Gulf sovereign fund. His Asian factories are about to vanish into a legal vacuum. Jürg Pestalozzi faces a joint customs raid on his art collection in the Geneva Freeports, a simultaneous cyberattack, and a devastating offer: sell to Abu Dhabi or lose everything.
And Matthias Kepler, dying of pancreatic cancer, must reconcile with a depressive heir, a rebellious daughter, and a Congo cobalt deal that threatens to destroy the empire he spent sixty years building. The Zürichberg Dossier is a collection of six interconnected novellas that read like a Swiss version of Succession-a cold, surgical exploration of power, inheritance, and the invisible wars fought over billions in the most discreet hill in Europe.
No heroes. No villains. Only functionaries, believers, exhausted patriarchs, and collateral victims. For fans of John le Carré, Robert Harris, and the TV series Succession.
