About the book: 2004 / Martin Mosebach is a famous German writer, author of novels, stories, poems, opera librettos, scripts, articles on literature and art. In 2004, Mosebach was elected a member of the German Academy of Language and Literature. “Prince of the Fog” - what is it? An adventurous novel in the best traditions of the genre or a philosophical parable about how “big politics” is done when the game of chance and insignificant personal ambitions rule the roost? The hero of the novel, journalist Theodor Lerner, has “extraordinary ease of thought” and therefore, probably, becomes the prey of an adventurer with experience, Mrs. Ganhouse, a kind of Ostap Bender in a skirt... All the fuss flares up around a small island in the Arctic Ocean, where coal deposits are supposedly discovered. Lerner, guided by the firm hand of Mrs. Gunhouse, is going to “privatize” part of this “no man’s” land, but on the spot he discovers Russians…