New Indie Book Release:
Treasure of Saint-Lazare - John Pearce -
Historical Mystery/Thriller (October 5, 2012 - 245 pages)
“The plot is credible and intriguing from the very beginning and the suspense remains until the end."
About the Book
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An old lover brings a cryptic letter to Paris, pulling Eddie Grant reluctantly into a treacherous web of intrigue and death -- but giving him a slim chance to find the terrorists who murdered his family seven years before.
It launches him on a dangerous quest through Paris and the Loire Valley for the most valuable piece of Nazi loot that remains missing, a famous Raphael self-portrait from the early 16th century, along with the crates of Nazi bullion that accompanied it -- all intended to finance the Fourth Reich.
Jen Wetzmuller, daughter of his father's World War II colleague in Army Intelligence, arrives in Paris, bearing a letter she found after he father was run down by a car on the streets of Sarasota. Its clues take Eddie from his Paris home to Florida, where he works to solve the mystery, barely escaping with his life. Then it's back home to burrow into the darkest reaches of the German occupation in search of the treasure.
Along the way he and Jen restart the brief, fiercely passionate affair that he abandoned, to his regret, 20 years before Sarasota.
Most of all, Treasure of Saint-Lazare is a novel about Paris.
***** Already A BEST SELLER In Historical Mysteries *****
- “[...] I've read a lot of new authors recently, searching for the next pearl in the rough and a new author who doesn't just phone things in. With the Treasure of Saint-Lazare, I think I've found them. Now, Pearce just needs another few hundred thousand avid readers to agree with me and discover this book. They should. He is, indeed, ready for prime time.” - Adam Najberg
Read also the Interview with John Pearce on Laurel Zuckerman's Paris Blog
About the Author
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| Author John Pearce |
I knew from the first the story would center on Paris, my favorite among all cities and my home for part of each year, but it took a lot of thinking to create the main French characters: Philippe the policeman, Aurélie his daughter and one-time lover of Eddie Grant, the main protagonist, and Jacques the old art thief, who luckily was still around in 2008 to provide some of the key evidence Eddie needed. Eric and Erich, villains extraordinaires, are a recognizable part of the Nazi epoch."
