Bitcoin, arms deals, corruption: In the Paris Tunnel du Landy, investigating magistrate Jacques Ricou and his girlfriend Margaux witness a black Mercedes being robbed! The perpetrators are on motorcycles and act with remarkable skill: Through the smashed window, they steal a briefcase and disappear as quickly as they came. The explosive part: The briefcase apparently contained a Bitcoin key. Could this incident possibly be connected to Ricou's current investigation? He's investigating the murder of a judge who had learned too much about money laundering using Bitcoin. Ulrich Wickert, born in Tokyo in 1942, studied law in Germany and political science in the USA. From 1977 to 1991, he was an ARD correspondent in Washington, New York, and Paris, and from 1991 to 2006, he anchored the news program "Tagesthemen." In 2005, Wickert was made an Officer of the Legion of Honor in France, and in 2006, he was appointed Secretary of the Académie de Berlin. He lives in Hamburg and the South of France, where he writes crime novels as well as political non-fiction. New product