About the book: 2021 / Five days. No phone. Without internet. In an abandoned mountaineering hotel at a height of two kilometers in the Bavarian Alps, where there is no one except two caretakers. “Digital detox”, a newfangled type of relaxation. This is what this group of eleven people decided to try. Each for their own reasons. As soon as they got there, a snowstorm broke out. By morning, the hotel is covered in snow up to the second floor, and the group is missing one person, Thomas. When he is found, the sight horrifies everyone. Thomas is completely naked, his eyes are burned out, his tongue is cut out, his ears are bleeding, and his body is paralyzed from the neck down. He hears nothing, sees nothing, cannot speak or move—isolated within himself. A frightening fate, in the face of which even death does not seem such a monstrous alternative. The radio is broken, there is nowhere to wait for help. Completely cut off from the outside world, people are locked in a huge hotel with a maniac - and it could be any of them... National bestseller in Germany. “You don’t need a bookmark for Strobel’s thrillers—you’ll read it in one fell swoop.” — Sebastian Fitzek, star of the German psychothriller “Strobel is one of those authors whose new book is guaranteed to end up on the bestseller list.” — Bayerischer Rundfunk “This author torments the reader with gusto.” — Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung “He knows how to drag you into an abyss that you’re even afraid to imagine.” — Krimikiste