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. 

CONTENTS

PART ONE - THE GIRL

BULLETS AND BREAD DOUGH

ONE

VEVEY, 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

EIGHT

VEVEY, 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 - SOPHIA

TWENTY - 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-FOUR

THIRTY-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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