This website presents fiction and non-fiction books by Peter de Chamier. They are available in English and in German. Those on this page are in English. If you click on the German-language flags on the right you will move to the German editions.
Auf dieser Website werden Bücher von Peter de Chamier vorgestellt. Sie sind auf auf Deutsch und Englisch erhältlich. Die Bücher auf dieser Seite sind auf Englisch. Wenn Sie die Flaggen auf der rechten Seite anklicken, gelangen Sie zu den deutschen Ausgaben.
Peter de Chamier works for an international scientific and humanitarian foundation. He has a doctorate in history.
The author has written and edited a number of non-fiction books that were translated into seven languages. He has contributed numerous newspaper articles to the culture and arts sections of several leading newspapers, and has a regular column in a scientific news magazine.
→ MORE about the author and some of his remarks about writing.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw. John Bull's Other Island.
In 1936 Germany and Japan sign a treaty with two oil companies: The two countries divide among each other the oil exploitation in Siberia. The diplomatic courier carrying the German version of the treaty from Tokyo to Berlin disappears while crossing the Soviet Union traveling on the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
Nearly seventy years later Jack Boulder, a Canadian living in the Swiss city of Basel, is asked by the German Foreign Office to trace the original copy of the treaty.
Difficile est saturam non scribere.
It is difficult not to write satire.
Juvenal. Saturae I, 30
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
Jessica Mitford.
Two German tourists die in traffic accidents in Egypt. Their bodies are used to transport a huge amount of dollar bills into Germany. Why are the responsible German authorities not interested in this case?
In the guise of a Canadian journalist Jack Boulder is sent to Egypt by a minor German secret service to inquire about the background, traveling with a German government minister's delegation.
Unintentionally, an airline physician gives Boulder a lead that finally takes him to Spain. Apparently, money trafficking is but a sideline in the context of events.
I hate things all fiction … there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric —
and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
Lord Byron in a letter to his publisher John Murray — London 1817.
Προαιρεῖσθαί τε δεῖ ἀδύνατα εἰκότα μᾶλλον ἢ δυνατὰ ἀπίθανα.
Probable impossibilities are preferable to improbable possibilities.
Aristotele. Poetics. 1460A; c. 335 BC.
The third volume in the series … the year is 2006. Russia and its billionaires promise riches and an auspicious future, for many the country has become the land of the rising sun, not least for German media czars and politicians.
It begins with an accident in Greece, follows man-hunts along dusty railroad tracks in the Middle East, and finally ends with a furniture truck in Switzerland.
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.
Harry Robbins Haldeman. Watergate and Related Activities. 1973.
The year is 2010. Some high-ranking diplomat in the German Foreign Office seems to have an eccentric hobby: vintage and antique stamps, mostly of the times of the German Reich, between 1871 and 1945 — and the period following until 1990. He steals them in the archives of the Foreign Office.
However, when his office is searched secretly, no trace of these stamps can be found. Nor does he sell them — anyway, they are not very valuable. What happens to them?
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