Iska van Loon, an experienced officer of the Nationale Politie, and the determined detective chief inspector Marten Jaspari are faced with an explosive case. Luuk Raand, an employee of a security company that protects the LNG terminal near Eemshaven, washes up dead on the beach of Borkum. One lead leads to radical environmentalists who want to uncover abuses in the processing of natural gas, while another
to the victim's opaque private environment. When the captain of a container ship finally disappears in the port of Hamburg, the case takes on unexpected dimensions. Iska and Marten must risk everything to prevent the North Sea from turning into an inferno of flames.
Fynn Jacob's real name is Christian Kuhn and he lives in Langenfeld, near his native Cologne, but he has been connected to the North Sea and its islands since childhood. The crime novels
The crime novels "Nordseedämmerung" and "Nordseedunkel", published under his real name, are set on the East Frisian islands of Juist and Norderney.
Marten Jaspari and Iska van Loon are set in various locations on both the German and Dutch North Sea coasts. Kuhn is a member of SYNDIKAT e.V., the association for German-language crime fiction.