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Overview
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 nearly eight decades later, 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 a 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 being mobilised to find and silence her 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.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940164796983 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Geoff Cook |
| Publication date: | 02/01/2021 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 1 MB |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
“Geoff was born in East London as the Second World War came to an end.
Following a traditional grammar school upbringing, he was convinced by his stepfather to give up the notion of becoming a journalist and get a proper job as an articled clerk to an old-established firm of City chartered accountants at the princely sum of 20 guineas per month.
Geoff’s professional career took him to Brazil for five years and then back to London where he joined an investment bank with interests in the world of film making and pop music, after which he branched out by establishing a chain of retail stores. An ambitious move into the leisure industry in Portugal eventually saw him back into the world of financial alchemy in the City of London where he participated in the spectacular rise of a fledgling public company, and sadly, as the recession of the early 80s took hold, its demise.
More recently, true to the adage, “cook by name and cook by nature,” Geoff’s holdings have included interests, not only in a hotel chain, a leisure complex, and a water park, but also a restaurant ship on Canary Wharf. Prior to his retirement, Geoff ran two restaurants on the Algarve.
Since he started his first street newspaper and lending library as a child, Geoff’s passion has been writing and will continue to be so until the ink dries up.
Geoff’s first full length novel, Pieces for the Wicked, was published in 2010 and deals with the financial intrigue and white collar terrorist activity at a time when the aftermath of the Iraq war show that the ticking time bomb of civil and religious unrest could easily be manipulated to provide a vacuum for the rise of another dictator once the occupying forces have retreated.
Since then, he has to his credit The Sator Square, a suspense thriller, taking a number of contemporary themes and weaving them in into a storyline involving savage revenge, family and ruthless commercial objectives. At its heart, is a terrorist plot and the desire to manipulate religious extremism as a tool to achieve far darker and sinister objectives.
In 2019, Rotercracker Copyrights released Deaf WIsh, a dark, contemporary family drama set in Wales, Northern Portugal and Spain’s Costa de La Luz. Gil Hart is a man seeking reconciliation with the wife and two sons he abandoned sixteen years earlier for a younger woman and a new life in Spain.
As he faces the prospect of a reunion with his bitter ex-wife at their younger son’s wedding little does he realise the need for revenge of those he cast aside and the lengths to which they are prepared to go to exact retribution.
Geoff's latest novel, The Last Rights, was originally scheduled for release last October, but delayed because of the pandemic until February, 2021. It tells the story of Rita Krakowski, a Polish Jew who, seventy years after witnessing the greatest robbery and criminal conspiracy of all time, finds her life in danger as the secrets locked in a vault at a Lisbon bank are set to expose a cover-up with far-reaching financial and political implications
Geoff has also written two three-act stage plays in the “Bloodlines” Trilogy. The controversial “Painful Truth” and “The Last Chapter” have been published on Stageplays and will shortly be available on Smashwords.
He derives his inspiration from old timers like Frederick Forsyth, John Le Carré, Len Deighton and, more recently from a wide variety of contemporary crime writers including the very talented Sabine Durrant and Alex Marwood with their psychological thrillers.