YOKO (Vol. I)

Yoko is just like you and me, until luck leaves her.

In her late twenties, Yoko transforms the butcher shop she inherited from her father into a small artisanal shop, packaging happiness into fortune cookies instead of butchering pigs. She is in love, and her life is filled with lightness for the first time.

But then one day she is in the wrong place at the wrong time. While delivering fortune cookies to a Chinese restaurant, she tries to help a small dog in the back alley and is punished by its tormentors. Yoko becomes an easy target for two violent men. Everything falls apart; her life shatters in an instant.

But Yoko makes a decision: Her pursuers will not decide when her life ends. Fate will not determine the course of her story. She will do it herself. She does not yet know who she is dealing with, how much suffering she will endure, and the unexpected severity with which she will seek retribution. Everything she holds dear will be taken from her. And so Yoko fights back. Ruthlessly.

Press about Yoko: 

„A masterfully arranged, incredibly suspenseful, highly elegant and extremely concentrated thriller.“ (WDR 5)
„The way Aichner lets this young woman grow, how he lets her overcome fear and find coolness, is simply really good.“ (NDR Kultur)
“Yoko is a merciless, thrilling novel that requires nerves of steel and a good stomach. In short: just the thing for fans of hard thrillers.“ (Die Presse am Sonntag)