"A tongue-in-cheek suspense with enough adventure and thrills to keep your adrenaline on the edge!"
Many crimes were committed by the Nazis during WWII, and one continuing to linger to this day are the properties of victims from all walks of life. You see, during the war the madman Hitler envisioned a huge museum of art from all corners of Europe. It would be the largest display of art in the world, and mark Germany as the dominant country of talent. But when the war came to a close and it was apparent Hitler's Germany would lose, he ordered the art to be destroyed. This was unthinkable even to his most devoted Nazis. Despite their oath of allegiance to Hitler, greed and the will to survive superceded their devotion to Hitler, and key Nazis conjured up one of the worst, and brilliantly executed, thefts in modern history.
Some in the Nazi heirarchy believed they could continue the fight by creating a Fourth Reich. They would, however, need money, and a lot of it! With the spoils of war having been at their doorstep during Europe's occupation by German forces, many Nazis had acquired (stolen) art treasures by some of the world's most talented people. There were Titians, Bruegels, even parts of the treasured Amber Room at their disposal with which to secure away for another day when their dream of continuing the fight would bear fruition. Thus, top Nazi officials like Ernst Kaltenbrunner, a high-ranking Gestapo General, ordered the collection of any and all art to be gathered and secreted away to be hidden in salt mines, caves, dungeons, any place where the Allies could not get their hands on them. But they had a major problem in their plan....
Some Nazis wanted the treasures for themselves. They had no interest in a Fourth Reich, but to survive the war in relative comfort. The very treasures they were ordered to acquire would provide them precisely what they desired.
Entire Major Ulrich Fabian, a Nazi known for his skill in organization. The war is coming to a close and he see's the light quite clearly. He has an opportunity to save his life and live it in full for years to come.... But only if he has the financial means to do so. With the Russians and Americans closing in on all sides, time is of the essence. He knows he cannot secure all of the art, but must escape with enough to carry out his plan for suvival.
1993 in Northeast Italy
Dix and Maria Conner are art experts living in Europe and come across information about a secret organization with possession of the famed stolen art of WWII. The fact that families lost entire fortunes stimulate their desire to learn what they can and help solve the mystery of this crime. But they face danger at every turn. Clues pop up over persons selling art at bazaars, leading them to people who are not who they claim to be. Maria visits people and see's lost art displayed on walls with the current owners unaware of what exactly they have in their homes. "How did they get them?" she wonders. Dix contacts people in the U.S. Army who can help him, but then it appears as though people in the American Army are in on this crime ring, too. Soon Dix and Maria do not know who they can trust. As they come closer to people responsible for creating this ring of thieves, they unknowingly come closer to certain death in this high-octane thriller complete with historical accuracy and fictional characters who most likely represent actual persons on a similar quest.
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