Johann Scheerer, WE’RE THEN NEXT OF KIN

Piper - Hardcover - March 2018 - 240 pages

How does it feel when someone wakes up your mother to tell her your father has been abducted? How do you endure the fear, the anguish, the uncertainty and the torturous boredom? How do you fill days in which anything could happen at any time, but you’re not even allowed to go to school, play sport or meet friends? And even Green Day, Die Ärzte and you electric guitar can offer no solace?

In thrilling, moving style, Johann Scheerer tells the story of the 33 days around Easter 1996 when his father Jan Philipp Reemtsma was kidnapped, the family home was turned into a police operation centre, and they almost lost all hope of ever seeing him alive again.

• Straight into the SPIEGEL Best Seller list upon publication