Echoes of Paris
Book 1 of 10 — The Series Begins
In 1920 Paris, the Great War is a fresh wound — and someone is using that wound to bleed the world again.
Gerhard Schroder survived the trenches, watched Versailles strip Germany bare, and decided he would not wait for history to change. His plan: use a respectable French shipping company to funnel weapons back into Germany.
Mark Webb arrives in Paris young, sheltered, and completely unprepared. Marie Chatel is brilliant, furious at being shut out of her father's world. Together they find themselves caught between a German operative who will kill without hesitation and the Black Chamber — an American intelligence agency that predates the CIA.
- Genre
- Historical Fiction / Espionage
- Setting
- Paris & Atlanta — 1920
- Series
- Book 1 of 10
- Length
- 93,789 words
- Publisher
- Coming Soon
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Prologue
The truck rambled along in the darkness, sputtering as the engine pitched and yawned up and down the black hillside. The driver, a squat man, fidgeted nervously by tapping his fingers on the backside of the steering wheel. It wasn't the first time he'd made the trip, but he was nervous all the same, as anyone would be from a job that could result in being hung for treason. He loved the feeling of excitement a trip like this brought back into his normally dull life. Sacha wasn't supposed to even be on this delivery, but one of their trucks and its driver had suspiciously been missing for nearly a month, leading to Sacha being given double duty and double the pay. The rumor among the other drivers, not that they were supposed to be talking together, had been that the driver everyone referred to as Blue had been found dead in a ditch riddled with bullets. Rumors had a way of permeating deep into the psyche, not that anyone thought of him as a person of deep thought. Still, it was unnerving to think that ole Blue might have met his end on a dark road like the one he was driving now...