An evening walk in the forest. Suddenly, a cry of pain comes from a hunting lodge. For the nocturnal hiker, this is the beginning of an odyssey that leads him via a psychiatric ward and a secluded mountain hut to a mysterious place called "Emperor's Eyrie". A crime novel in diary form about right-wing nationalist networks and the manifold faces of reality.

After living and working in Russia for a long time, Nadja Dietrich now lives as a freelance author in the Lorraine region in north-east France. The present novel is her third publication with LiteraturPlanet after Das russische Labyrinth (The Russian Labyrinth, 2008) and Murder in the German Parliament (2022, in German 2017).