2025: Pioneering technologies have revolutionized astronautics. In a fierce race, Americans and Chinese are mining helium-3 on the moon, an element that promises to solve all global energy problems. Meanwhile, detective Owen Jericho takes on the task of finding the dissident Yojo, who has mysteriously disappeared. What seems like a routine case turns into a nightmarish manhunt, as the beautiful yet exhausting Chinese woman possesses some strictly hidden secrets and her life is now in danger. The traces lead all over the globe, and to the Moon, where a group of space tourists discovers something truly threatening.

Four years after the global success of "The Swarm," Frank Schätzing transitions from the world of the sea to the world of space to take us on a journey to a future that does not seem particularly distant, with a breathtaking novel.