Taking Liberty

By Lawrence Dunning

In this sprawling novel of suspense and terror, a ruthless professional killer, a disillusioned career spy, and a beautiful Sorbonne professor cross paths with Moscow intelligence. They are all in a race to find the fabled Romanov jewels, smuggled out of Russia a century ago and secreted inside the Statue of Liberty before it was shipped from France to New York. The scene shifts compellingly from the present-day United Nations building to the Czarist Russia of Alexander II, the elegant boulevards of Paris and the sun-drenched Cote d'Azur, and ends in a spectacle of violence at America's shining symbol of freedom standing in New York Harbor.

The international hunt is interwoven with the efforts of Paris-based CIA agent Martin Toberts, his new-found love Solange Cordier who holds a secret more than a hundred years old, and his bloody-minded nemesis Pell Bruckner, a rogue agent intent on only one thing--satisfying his lust for personal wealth--at the expense of anyone or anything that stands in his way.

It is, finally, a story of staggering wealth secreted in a place no one can believe, causing individuals and nations to kill for it and, in some cases, die for it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1504029054
• ISBN13: 9781504029056
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Open Road Distribution
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Taking Liberty - a fun fast read.

I read this book in High School, and can still remember it 13 years later. It was a fast fun read, with plenty of action, suspense and intrigue