The Cold Cup

Neuss, 2032 to 2040. In his retirement, the Neuss merchant Dieter Winter stakes everything on an honest espresso machine and the small brand omaneo. But sales pressure, investors, and his own impatience drive him to sell what he built. The brand is ruined, the name becomes a commodity, the coffee grows cold. A quiet, elegiac crime novel about greed, betrayal, and whether the real thing survives when everything is sold, and about the spark that lives on. The third volume of the omaneo Saga.

Neuss, 2032 to 2040. In his retirement, the Neuss merchant Dieter Winter stakes everything on an honest espresso machine and the small brand omaneo. But sales pressure, investors, and his own impatience drive him to sell what he built. The brand is ruined, the name becomes a commodity, the coffee grows cold. A quiet, elegiac crime novel about greed, betrayal, and whether the real thing survives when everything is sold, and about the spark that lives on. The third volume of the omaneo Saga.