A terrifying thriller about the search for the code to life, and the key to a death

28 November 2026. Sharkey, a Viennese reporter, spends one tiresome evening with Leo, a drunken computer nerd. Three months later the man’s widow calls; her husband has died in mysterious circumstances, and he has hinted that his new ‘friend’ Sharkey might be able to explain why.

Starting with a strange equation scribbled above Leo’s desk, Sharkey embarks on a fearsomely complex and frequently dangerous search through the cyber-highways and the frozen city, looking for secrets, the genetic clues to Leo’s inexplicable death, and his even stranger life. As he discovers more about Leo’s friends and family, his past and his future, Sharkey has to reassess everything he thought he knew about life and its processes...

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'A NERVE-TINGLING PLOT, IN WHICH SOPHISTICATED GENETIC ENGINEERING, ORGANISED RACISM AND INTRIGUE ARE INTERTWINED'

'Vienna Blood is a delight; a techno-thriller so impressive it re-enobles a genre woefully demeaned in recent years...'