Once in a lifetime a novel, your name on the shelf of a bookstore discover: Helmut Haider, this dream has become a reality. The native of Erdinger, lives with his wife and two daughters (6 and 15) in frauenberg, has published his first Thriller: “The focus of the enemy”.
woman mountain “I have already said in the first class: I’ll write a book. It took a few years, but at some point, somebody said Important in my life: ,Now’ finally!‘“, told the 50-Year-old.
According to the teaching of office clerks and a further qualification in human resource management Haider was almost 30 years as a sales and staff Manager throughout all of Europe. “I’ve always been a panic-monger, always at full throttle,” he recalls.
Haider’s attitude to life changes radically when he falls ill 2015 difficult and the professional life. “Today, I enjoy it, to be for my daughters and to push me creatively as a writer.” The 100-hour weeks in the Job, he had exchanged “against a 70-hour week with the children,” says Haider, laughing.
“In the focus of the enemy” is his first work. It has something to do with his profession, and photography plays a role. She is Haider’s horse stuck next to the Letter. “Photography is an art, which allows dreams”, is a sentence in the book. Mostly people come to Haider in front of the lens. “I always say, I’m a man-man”, he explains this passion.
Thriller takes place in the year 2019. “It was important for me to write about something that could actually happen.” Professional experience and Research would have moved him, “the people say that behind-the-Scenes of major events, unfortunately, are sometimes very a lot more going on than some like to imagine, and we are not sure”.
content: in An unusual order costing James, a Munich-based photographer with American roots, almost the life. When he wakes up in the hospital, he can’t remember any of this. Gradually, he realized that he should be vacated as an unpleasant witness out of the way. However, the police do not believe him when he reports of planned terrorist attacks. She holds him for a wanted murderer. A race against time begins, as only James can prevent a disaster.
Three years of work on the 660-page book. The search for a publisher was, however, gone fast. “In 2017, I have looked at the Frankfurt book fair, publishers like me. It was important, the people behind it to get to know,“ says Haider. Three publishers he sent his manuscript, and two offers received. In the Medu-Verlag chemistry voted.
Since mid-October, is “The focus of the enemy” (ISBN 978-3-96352-016-7, 14.95 euros) in trade. 3000 piece includes the first edition. Currently, Haider is working on a related script, the sequel of the Thriller is in the planning stage. “The plot I have in mind, but the pop effect has yet to emerge.” His first children’s book has completed Haider. It deals with the issue of courage and will appear in the coming year. Wished you had the book in his six-year-old daughter, tells Haider that reads only thrillers and books about photography and psychology.
“A direct model, there is not, but the works of Dan Brown intrigue me very much. It is gigantic, how he researched his books,“ he enthuses. Inspired him is also a “Blackout” by Marc Elsberg, in which there is wide a Europe of a power failure. “Because I’ve felt for weeks, caught in the act, I have the story constantly questioned.”
Around 30 personal reviews the New author already. “This is also very important to me. To me, the personal approach extremely much,“ he says.
We’re giving away five signed copies of “The focus of the enemy”. Who wants to win, sent on Saturday, may 5. In January, an E-Mail with the subject line “raffle” as well as the Name, address, and phone number to redaktion@erdinger-anzeiger.de. The winners will be notified, and in our newspaper published.
