Die ersten Monate (Dolores-19 1)

Die ersten Monate opens Benjamin Keck's Dolores-19 series with the outbreak of a virus called Dolores that plunges the world into panic buying, looting, and collapsing order. A group of four young adults break into a gun store to secure weapons, supplies, and drugs, setting off a chain of consequences that spirals into one of the most reckless road trips imaginable.

Written in a casual, dark-humored voice, the novel follows its cynical, sharply drawn characters through escalating danger, testing the limits of friendship and survival instinct as the world around them falls apart. The tone mixes comic irreverence with real stakes — violence, addiction, and the fraying of social order — making it a distinctly German pandemic satire rather than a straight disaster thriller.