Naphezu kokuba inoveli yokuqala ukufika eSpain nguDaniela Larcher (lelo igama lomlobi ngemuva kwegama lomgunyathi, u-Clex Cerveza ohunyushwe ngokuthi ngeSpanishi wayengeke adle i-colín yombhalo), lo mbhali usevele uneminyaka yakhe emihle evela ubulili obumnyama ezweni lakhe lapho yena futhi mhlawumbe Impisi Haas o Ursula Poznanski yibo abahlengwa kakhulu endabeni yobugebengu.
Kepha maqondana noDaniela noma u-Alex, le noveli eshicilelwe vele ngo-2017 ihlose ukususa cishe ngaphezu kwabanye ababhali ababaluliwe. Ngakho-ke ngokuqinisekile sizothola izitolimende ezintsha zaseViennese zalo mbhali esivele ziqhathaniswa nazo UPhilip Kerr ochungechungeni lwakhe lwezincwadi eBerlin.
Indaba ehehayo esethwe e-Vienna yezimpi, yinkanyezi ekhulayo yenoveli yobugebengu yase-Austria. Vienna, ngemva nje kokuphela kweMpi Yezwe Yokuqala. Ubukhazikhazi bedolobha lombuso yinto yesikhathi esidlule, iVienna icwila endlaleni nosizi.
U-August Emmerich, obambe iqhaza empini futhi efihla imiphumela yokulimala emlenzeni, uthola isidumbu sesinxibi okusolakala ukuthi sizibulele. Njengomphenyi onolwazi, akakwethembi ukubonakala, kepha akanabo ubufakazi bokufakazela umbono wakhe wokuthi ungumbulali futhi ubeka icala lakhe phambili.
U-Emmerich nomsizi wakhe, uFerdinand Winter, bathatha isinqumo sokwenza olwabo uphenyo, ngakho-ke baqala ukugijimisa okuthokozisayo nokuyingozi emigwaqweni yaseVienna yangemva kwempi emfushane, egcwele abantu abalahliwe, izigebengu kanye nezakhamizi ezilwela ukuphila.
Manje usungathenga inoveli ethi "The Second Horseman", incwadi ka-Alex Beer, lapha:
