The Lost Legacy |
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Author:
| Alfers, Stephen |
ISBN: | 979-8-9859437-2-6 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2022 |
Publisher: | Evergreen Publishing LLC
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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Sam Bennett lands in Kyiv in April of 1991. He's on private business this time, this most recent of many trips to the Soviet Bloc throughout the Cold War. Much of that was back in Sam's past with CIA. Of course, those days were never completely in his past. Once in Kyiv, the beautiful and seductive Marina Petrova, Ukraine's Minister of the Arts, contrives a meeting with Sam to enroll him and Julie Wright, Sam's love interest and rising star in the US State Department in Marina's plot...
More DescriptionSam Bennett lands in Kyiv in April of 1991. He's on private business this time, this most recent of many trips to the Soviet Bloc throughout the Cold War. Much of that was back in Sam's past with CIA. Of course, those days were never completely in his past. Once in Kyiv, the beautiful and seductive Marina Petrova, Ukraine's Minister of the Arts, contrives a meeting with Sam to enroll him and Julie Wright, Sam's love interest and rising star in the US State Department in Marina's plot to find and repatriate a priceless trove of stolen art recovered by the Soviet Army in Berlin at the end of World War II and hidden away in Western Ukraine. This trove of art includes the extensive art collection of Marina's Polish family, looted by the Soviets in their ruthless occupation of Poland during the war. A Statue of Lenin follows Sam, Marina, and Julie in their race to recover the art and their battle either corrupt oligarch, Pavel Bondaruk to repatriate the art to the West.