The Tenth Witness
by Leonard Rosen
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Pub Date Sep 20 2013 | Archive Date Feb 26 2014
Description
On the night of October 9, 1799, the frigate HMS Lutine breaks apart on the shoals of the Frisian Islands off the Dutch coast. When the insurer Lloyds of London pays on the wreck, it takes ownership and plans expeditions to recoup the lost millions in gold and silver. Nearly two hundred years later, after a series of largely failed salvage operations, Lloyds tries again - this time on the strength of new technologies and a strategy devised by the gifted young engineer, Henri Poincare.
It is late spring, 1978. Poincare has worked to near-exhaustion preparing for the Lutine dive. Before the salvage season begins, he takes a rare holiday: a hike at low tide across the vast, muddy flats of the Wadden Sea. His guide is Liesel Kraus - smart, able, appealing...and troubled. She and her brother Anselm, directors of Kraus Steel, are haunted by a violent history that generates both rage and an enormous, corrupting wealth. The closer Poincare draws to Liesel and Anselm, the more warped life becomes until love and a death threat compel him to investigate what no one else - aside from Interpol - will. Pain as well as treasure, he discovers, can be dredged up from the past to reshape the present.
The Tenth Witness, a prequel to the award-winning All Cry Chaos, is the tale of a man upended: a twenty-eight year old who rejects a brilliant career in engineering for an uncertain, darker one: international police work.
Advance Praise
"Rosen relies on literary background and considerable research skillfully to portray Henri’s confrontation with the nature of evil and his developing detective talents in investigating both dead Nazis and living ones. Another winner." - Library Journal
" Mr. Rosen paints a graphically clear picture of Nazi camps of the past and slave labor of the present and sews them together seamlessly. His characters are well developed with several surprises thrown in just to entertain the reader. If Henri Poincaré is soon going to make another appearance, it would behoove any reader who enjoys a good mystery to start collecting the rest of the titles in the series. You will not be disappointed." - NY Journal of Books
"Rosen writes with polish and confidence. His plot develops slowly, but like a gold bar hidden at the bottom of the sea, it’s worth the wait." Publishers Weekly
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EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9781579623197 |
PRICE | $28.00 (USD) |
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