Delivery Service

  • A Sci-Fi-Thriller set in a world where couriers are armed to the teeth – and delivery services have more power than we can imagine
  • Over 1.2 million copies of Tom Hillenbrand’s books sold
  • English sample translation by Laura Caton available

New Berlin, sometime in the future: Delivery services bring you everything you want, within minutes. But to make a profit, they have to be especially fast and unscrupulous. 

Arkadi’s employer Rio specializes in producing orders using 3D printers and delivering them immediately. The pressure is enormous: as soon as something is ordered – whether it’s a video game console or toothpaste – a ruthless race begins between the various delivery services to get it to the customer as quickly as possible. Only the fastest get paid, the others are left behind with their now next to useless product. Arkadi is one of the foot soldiers in this brutal competition, zipping around the city on a hoverboard, trying to outdo the competition by any means necessary.

One day, a colleague asks Arkadi to take on a job for him. Shortly thereafter his colleague is dead. The young courier gets caught up in a maelstrom of events from which he can barely escape. He is asked to carry out strange special assignments, and his management suddenly takes huge interest in him. Can he make the mysterious deliveries before the competition’s marketing drones snatch him out of the air?

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  • Publisher: Kiepenheuer&Witsch
  • Release: 15.08.2024
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-00621-6
  • 192 Pages
  • Author: Tom Hillenbrand
Delivery Service
Tom Hillenbrand Delivery Service
Heike Bogenberger
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Tom Hillenbrand

Tom Hillenbrand is the author of numerous nonfiction books and novels, including the culinary thrillers featuring Luxembourg chef Xavier Kieffer as an investigator. One million copies of his books have been sold, they have won multiple awards, appear regularly on the SPIEGEL bestseller list and were translated into numerous languages.