The trade unionist - after-work reading with Eva Stegen

This true story about a state affair in the nuclear industry shows how environmental issues and feminism belong together.

Maureen Kearney is found tied up and traumatized in her own apartment. This is the starting point of a political thriller that actually happened. It provides an insight into the dark abysses of the nuclear industry. EWS energy officer Eva Stegen has translated the book and will be reading from it.

In the wheels of the nuclear mafia

The French bestseller "La Syndicaliste" by Caroline Michel-Aguirre was published in 2019. The film adaptation starring Isabelle Huppert was released in 2022. EWS energy consultant Eva Stegen translated it from French; the German edition was presented at the Leipzig Book Fair.

About the book

The timing of the publication could hardly be more appropriate, as the book shows how insane it is to become dependent on despots for technology, even in this country. It sheds a glaring light on an almost suicidophilic longing for nuclear power, placing quasi pre-installed bombs in one's own front garden and making common cause with those against whom one wants to defend oneself.

Especially now that the calls for nuclear power plants and a "nuclear umbrella" are not dying down, it is worth taking a look behind the scenes, because it is not only in the rogue states themselves that powerful players will use any means to silence their opponents.

Criminal energy

Trade unionist Maureen Kearney has uncovered the dubious machinations of the French nuclear industry. As a whistleblower, she campaigned against the transfer of highly sensitive information from the leading French nuclear company Areva to a Chinese nuclear state-owned corporation and was therefore to be silenced in a diabolical manner. Mafia methods, the most brutal sexualized violence, were used to prevent the thwarting of nuclear deals worth billions. Traumatized and tied up, she is found in her own apartment. At first there is no trace of the perpetrators and she can only remember fragments.

This is the starting point of a political thriller that actually happened. Right up to the highest spheres of power in politics, business, the judiciary and the police, the powerful allied themselves and cowered under orders to build a seemingly unbreakable cartel of silence against the trade unionist. In novel form, this book tells how the once strong woman was to be broken by a perfidious perpetrator-victim reversal. And - very importantly - how the defenceless victim stands up, becomes able to speak, develops considerable strength and frees herself from the role of victim.