Der junge Jäger David befindet sich mitten im dreißigjährigen Krieg auf dem Weg zum Dekan Sölln in Bayern. Plötzlich hat der Mann eine unheimliche Vision: er sieht die hübsche Madda in Flammen! Doch nicht genug damit. Der Dekan gibt David im Salzbergwerk Arbeit. Dort sprengt er eines Tages einen im Salz konservierten Menschen aus der Urzeit frei, den alle für die Personifizierung des Satans halten. Der skrupellose Inquisitor Pürckmayer sieht sich durch den Volksglauben bestärkt und rechtfertigt damit seine Teufelsaustreibungen. Auch die durch die Natur bedingten Naturzerstörungen schreibt man schließlich auf das Luzifers Konto. Die Zeit des Glaubensstreits ist aber ebenso jene des Hexenwahns und so wird auch die hübsche Isabell gefoltert, weil man annimmt, sie sei eine Hexe. Jäger David bangt um die junge Frau. Sie ist nämlich die Liebe seines Lebens.

Part Seven in Jerry Cotton Series. The FBI agent tackles an organisation of assassins who kill to order.

Die Ausgesperrten revolves around an unlikely group of 4 youths in Vienna who band together, each for different reasons, to mug people. Two are fraternal twins, the third a blue-collar worker, the fourth the privileged daughter of wealthy parents who "needs a little dirt in her life". The story provides penetrating insights into the Austria of the 50s, in which some enjoyed the benefits of the "Economic Miracle", while others were shut out. It repeatedly references Austria's Nazi past and the numerous ways in which it influences the present despite the conspiracy of silence which surrounds it.

Jimmy Bondi and his miracle beetle Dudu are on their way to Portugal by sea. In the Algarve, they are witness to a dispute in which ex-inmate Plato and the attractive Tamara have to do with Marchese de la Sotta and his henchmen.

A neo-Nazi organization is recruiting in the 1980s, and two youths of high-school age join for similar reasons, despite class differences. Thomas is the son of a self-made industrialist father and a scolding social-climbing mother. He attends private school and has a brother who's an accomplished musician, but neither can satisfy mom's constant demands for school and social success. She belittles them, and there's incessant bickering at their table. Charly, a dropout, is the son of an abusive, alcoholic laborer. In the youth group, each finds order, respect, camaraderie, and adults who seem to value them. Where do domestic abuse and sanctioned political violence end?