April 1945 – As the war in Europe draws to a chaotic and bloody finale and the days of the Third Reich are numbered, a train filled with a cargo of Nazi gold sets off from Berlin destined for a secret location in Bavaria.
On board a young Polish Jew is about to witness a chain of events leading to the greatest robbery and criminal conspiracy of all time.
October 2018 – After eighty years, a Lisbon bank is about to finally close its safe deposit facility. The secrets and treasures locked away over decades will soon be revealed. Influential people in powerful positions have reasons to be concerned.
Fusing together the two events are the recollections of Rita Krakowski, Holocaust survivor, condemned as a Nazi collaborator and fugitive from justice. Memories are branded into her soul like the number on her forearm, revelations with far-reaching international and financial implications. Powerful forces are mobilised. She must be found and silenced forever.
For private investigators, Chas Broadhurst and René Marchal, what appears to be a straight-forward assignment rapidly becomes a deadly race against time to find the woman before it is too late and to expose a cover-up seventy years in the making.
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CONTENTS
PART ONE – THE GIRL
BULLETS AND BREAD DOUGH
ONEVEVEY, SWITZERLAND
December 2018
TWO
FORT VII, POZNAN, POLAND
January 1944
THREE
POTULICE CONCENTRATION CAMP, POLAND
September 1944
FOUR
VEVEY, SWITZERLAND
December 2018
FIVE
POTULICE CONCENTRATION CAMP, POLAND
September 1944
SIX
POTULICE CONCENTRATION CAMP, POLAND
November 1944
SEVEN
SACHSENHAUSEN-ORANIENBURG, GERMANY
February 1945
PART TWO – RITA
THE CATERPILLAR
EIGHTVEVEY, SWITZERLAND
December 2018
NINE
BERLIN, GERMANY
March 1945
TEN
ANHALTER BAHNHOF, BERLIN, GERMANY
13 April 1945
ELEVEN
ANHALTER BAHNHOF, BERLIN, GERMANY
14 April 1945
TWELVE
PROTIVEC, CZECHOSLOVAKIA
29 April 1945
THIRTEEN
NEAR OBERAU, GERMAN-AUSTRIAN BORDER
7 p.m., 30 April 1945
FOURTEEN
MOVING TOWARDS 1962 AND VALPARAISO, CHILE
FIFTEEN
THE ALGARVE, PORTUGAL
TOWARDS 1988
SIXTEEN
THE ALGARVE, PORTUGAL
1988-1989
SEVENTEEN
THE ALGARVE, PORTUGAL
Wednesday, 29 March 1989
EIGHTEEN
LISBON, PORTUGAL
Tuesday, 2 May 1989
PART THREE
INTRODUCING THE PLAYERS
NINETEEN – SOPHIATWENTY – JOSEF
TWENTY-ONE – DANATA
TWENTY-TWO – SOPHIA
TWENTY-THREE – SOPHIA
TWENTY-FOUR – ISABEL
TWENTY-FIVE – JOSEF
TWENTY-SIX – ENRICO (MARCELLO)
TWENTY-SEVEN – PETRA
TWENTY-EIGHT – ISABEL
TWENTY-NINE – GENERAL FRANKLIN WILLIAMS (Deceased)
THIRTY – ELLIOTT
PART FOUR
DISCOVERY
THIRTY-ONE
THIRTY-TWO
THIRTY-THREE
THIRTY-FOURTHIRTY-FIVE
THIRTY-SIX
THIRTY-SEVEN
THIRTY-EIGHT
THIRTY-NINE
FORTY
FORTY-ONE
FORTY-TWO
FORTY-THREE
FORTY-FOUR
FORTY-FIVE
FORTY-SIX
FORTY-SEVEN
FORTY-EIGHT
FORTY-NINE
FIFTY
FIFTY-ONE
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Geoff Cook – BIO
DEGUELLO
An extract from Geoff Cook’s next release
(Scheduled publication – late 2021)
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