The Final Heist
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John Pearce
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The ugly sound of gunfire rips down the Paris boulevard from the Louvre to the Opera, ruining the sunny and tranquil June day and throwing Eddie Grant head first into his own rendezvous with destiny. He reacts to the violent armed robbery on instinct alone, but soon realizes it’s more than a single crime. Failure may mean a major European war. Eddie calls on his experience as a Special Forces wartime commander to disarm one of the attackers. Rescuing a friend inside the looted store, he stumbles on a lethal package rigged to bring down the historic building. And to kill. If his timing is off, he could be the victim. The Final Heist is Eddie's own solution to a problem he thought he had solved long ago--what happened to the king's ransom in stolen Nazi gold that disappeared at the end of World War II? Years later, when he and Aurélie found it buried behind the Saint-Lazare railway station in Paris, the discovery brought out a gang of thieves who wanted to mix it with tons of bullion a fraudulent gold speculator bought with money he conned from the wealthy and politically connected of Washington and Paris. It's now 2019, the period between Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine and its attempt to occupy it entirely. Notre Dame Cathedral has just burned, leaving all Paris on edge and mourning. A Russian oligarch, a soldier of fortune and former KGB agent with deep ties within the Russian government, plans to take advantage of the uncertainty and put the gold in play. He will finance a private war to extend Russia's influence westward from Ukraine to the very border of Germany, a conquest that would definitely lead to a European war. Eddie and his friends manage to locate the gold, but the Russian oligarch snatches it from under their noses, leaving them only one choice. They will follow his gold-laden tugboat across the Mediterranean on a decrepit World War II freighter, a Victory Ship. A running gunfight at sea solves the gold problem once and for all, or at least that's what Eddie hopes. The body count has been too high for failure to be an option.
