Chess under the volcano

After meeting his readers, the successful writer Franz J. Lunde. All that remains is the wreckage of a burnt-out car and an unfinished novel called The Author's Last Days and Death. In it, Lunde describes the persecution to which he was subjected. The disturbing text falls into the hands of Commissioner Gunnar Barbarotti during the investigation, but instead of answers it only brings many more confusions. The Commissioner is inclined to the version that the writer Lunde disappeared of his own accord - but only until another author disappears just as mysteriously. So Barbarotti has an important question to answer: What the hell is going on here?