The Midnight Break

Johann Glück is unlucky ...

After a deal falls through, banker Johann Glück finds himself out on the street and shortly afterwards back in his office – however, with a mop and bucket in his hand and definitely after office hours. The only highlight of his new job is Team Four’s midnight breaks, when former chef Valea serves delicacies from her Romanian homeland. Johann suggests a competition, with the other team members as the jury. The motley crew becomes a close-knit community that soon throws in the towel, or rather buckets and mops, and develops a new business idea ...  

  • A warm-hearted, charming and humorous feel-good novel
  • A plea for the power of friendship – and good food
  • For readers of Julie Caplin, Jenny Colgan and Carsten Henn
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
Christoph Merker

Christoph Merker, born in 1969 in Lower Bavaria, attended the vocational school for wood carving and carpentry in Berchtesgaden. He stayed there for love and the landscape and studied Philosophy and Art History in Salzburg. Today he lives as an author and artist in Schönau am Königssee.

320 pages, ISBN: 978-3-423-22188-7
First published 2026