The HAMBURG NEWS sends reporter Lukas Hammerstein back to school. At the Elyseum, ambitious, helicopter-parenting parents are almost as prevalent as their pubescent offspring. Lukas is to attend classes for a month, including exams, in order to report on it for the newspaper. Lukas is sweating bullets. The project attracts a lot of attention, with consequences: Lukas receives information that wealthy parents are using donations to boost their children's grades in areas where all tutoring fails. Then the headmistress suddenly disappears. Lukas sets out to investigate – and uncovers the darkest machinations at the elite school, machinations that shake not only the educational landscape. biography Lars Haider, born in 1969, is a journalist and author. He worked in various editorial departments at German newspapers before becoming editor-in-chief of the Hamburger Abendblatt in July 2011. It was during this time that he became acquainted with Olaf Scholz, whom he has probably met more often than almost any other journalist in Germany, and whom he always believed had the potential to one day become Chancellor. New product