Die vierte Gewalt

Freelance journalist Jan Schulte hopes for a job at the online portal of Berlin newspaper Die Republik when he discovers a potential scandal Federal minister of health Elisabeth Stade apparently helped her brothers search for a heart transplant by moving him up the waiting list illegally But then Schultes colleague Britta claims the compromising material is a fake Editorinchief Weishaupt and publisher Winter refuse to run the article As Jan keeps on digging into the scandal investigating state secretary Katharina Pflüger and political advisor Frank Gruber his evidence is suddenly stolen from the newspaper office and soon a competing tabloid breaks the story