Author(s): Mark Pryor

Crime and thriller

This is an enthralling, fast-paced debut novel filled with intrigue, action, and mystery Max - an elderly Paris bookstall owner - is abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, looks on helplessly, powerless to do anything to stop the kidnapper. Enlisting the help of semi-retired CIA agent Tom Green, Marston launches his own investigation, which reveals Max was a Holocaust survivor and later became a Nazi hunter. Is his disappearance somehow tied to his past, or even to the mysterious old books he sold? On the streets of Paris, tensions are rising as rival gangs engage in a violent turf war. Before long, other booksellers begin to disappear. Though the police are not interested, Marston is convinced the hostilities have something to do with the murders of Paris' bouquinistes. With Tom by his side, Marston finally puts the pieces together, connecting the past with the present and leading the two men, quite literally, to the enemy's lair...just as the abductor intended.