When a Germanair plane crashes in the French Alps, investigators and the media present a seemingly clear explanation: the co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane. But for Sophie Thalberg, a journalist and former partner of the co-pilot, this picture does not add up. She begins her own investigation and uncovers a deliberate cover-up. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes: it wasn't her ex-boyfriend who was the problem. It was a system that needs someone to blame - whatever the cost.
Other possible causes and connections are not even considered. This, in a powerful web of manipulation and cover-up, leads to a consequential "confirmation bias."
Together with Till Gorny, a security consultant with a military background, she follows the trail behind the official narrative: missing data, manipulated evidence, political interests, orchestrated lies.
What they discover leads far beyond the crash - deep into a system that shapes and destroys truth as it serves its purpose. SILENT SKIES is a literary political thriller about love and loss, about truth and lies - and about how much courage it takes when the whole world believes in a story that isn't true.
The novel is inspired by the real crash of Germanwings flight 4U9525 in March 2015. However, it deliberately breaks with the prevailing suicide theory and asks: What if we were told the wrong story back then?
