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Information in English Contents of Only Birds
can fly
Nur Vögel können fliegen
Roy Lester, a German journalist, notices that a syndicate of drug dealers and a criminal psycho-sectarian organisation are trying to gain influence on an electronic firm in his hometown, Kelterburg, in the south-west of Germany. There is an attempted murder to Marianne Peterman, the owner's wife, and Roy Lester, who is a friend of Mr and Mrs Peterman, advises them to hide themselves in the north of Scotland, where he and his family know their ways around extremely well. Will the criminals from the south of Germany follow them to the beautiful and most peaceful edge of Europe? Will Roy Lester be successful in safeguarding his wife, his three teenage daughters, his friends and himself? Roy Lester and the Scottish undercover agents Chris Ferguson and Linda Steel live in Port-na-Con Guesthouse on magnificent Loch Eriboll, while pursueing the criminals. The Ranger of the area advises them how to save a young grey seal pup's life and they bring it to Skye Environmental Centre (SEC), where it is well looked after. Cape Wrath and the Old Man of Stoer are very important sites in the novel, too. Captain William MacLeod, Skipper of the 'Dolphin', helps the Lester family with his boat to escape from their pursuers at lonely Sandwood Bay. Also several other people of the area take part in helping the Lesters, for instance a Lochinver diver, the Harbour Master and a sheep farmer. The Ullapool bed-race is the reason why the Lester family can gain a lead over the criminals, who chased them to Skye, where, finally, Roy Lester and the police are able to arrest many of the criminals at a showdown, whereas the bosses either kill themselves or retreat to foreign countries. In the end a young woman, who attempted to kill Roy Lester at Cape Wrath but had been a victim to drugs and pseudo-religious mania herself, is buried on behalf of Roy Lester and his family at Balnakeil cemetery on a dark stormy December day - where only birds can fly. Nur ein Tropfen Vergangenheit
In the remote far north of Scotland, near the slopes of Ben Hope and close to the shores of lovely Loch Hope, a young woman, victim of rape and humiliation, throws herself directly in front of the car of two students of Tübingen University in the south of Germany. More than a thousand miles away, Roy Lester, the personable journalist with a receding hairline, from Kelterburg near Stuttgart, never seen outdoors without his beloved old Irish leather hat, meets Elmar Heinze, an engineer and businessman in opto-electronics who is being blackmailed by photographs apparently proving him to be the rapist. He admits trout fishing in the area on that date, and above all his sperm proves him guilty, too. Nevertheless he vehemently claims to be innocent. Roy Lester, accompanied by his wife Eileen and three sporty teenage daughters, investigates near Loch Hope and the Dun Dornadilla Broch, at Tongue and Port-na-Con close to magnificent Loch Eriboll. Soon the investigation leads the Lesters to Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Scotland's oil capital, and later, to the peaceful Applecross peninsula on the rough western coast of the country, where, curiously enough, the otter population has visibly declined recently, although surroundings and environmental circumstances are more or less ideal. Moreover, two young female members of an organisation for the protection of animals have been kidnapped, and taken to the small Summer Isles. All that seems to be mysteriously connected. But how? This multi-layered, complex thriller takes the reader from the coasts and rugged moors of northern Scotland - affectionately described - to totally different swampy grounds: those of crime, power, sexual perversities, technology and false genetic research. Young women, politicians, scientists, businessmen, and a photographer - culprit or victim - are in danger of being trapped by these "Traces of the Past". A hot tip finally leads Roy Lester into Berlin and late satisfaction for one of the victims reunites the Lesters in a typically cosy Swabian wine-tavern in their home town Kelterburg, where still another surprise awaits them. Biography Lothar W. Ulsamer
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