When your prison becomes your salvation

Leah, a soldier in the Israeli Navy, is on patrol in a submarine when suddenly all of the vessel’s instruments malfunction. Soon it becomes clear that a catastrophe beyond all imagination has occurred on the outside.
A violent noise underwater startles the submarine crew. Soon they realize that a devastating event of biblical proportions has taken place on Earth. Above water, everything is destroyed; ports cannot be approached. While trapped in the submarine, Leah realizes she is pregnant and faces immense regret for not staying with her husband. But no one on land seems to have survived. Hans Leister’s technically excellently researched thriller takes the reader on a claustrophobic odyssey in which nothing more and nothing less than the survival of mankind is at stake.

»It has been a long time since a debut novel has taken my breath away like this one. A noteworthy author.«
Christian von Zittwitz, BuchMarkt, on The Tunnel

»captivating in a very intelligent way.«
Wilhelmshavener Zeitung

»The Berlin-based engineer and author Hans Leister describes the journey there suspensefully and with great knowledge of the technical details.«
OÖ Nachrichten

»Visionary and surprising, pure white-knuckle thrill.«
Kulturbote.de