The Shadow of the Force

By Neville Johnston

THE SHADOW OF THE FORCE is a Crime Thriller set in Toronto, Bern, Florence, Rome and Paris in the early 1980's. The dominant themes are crime, mystery, suspense, and courtroom drama.

When filthy rich Toronto lawyer Fred Bruni is found dead at his desk in his law office following a business trip to Bern, Florence and Rome, the coroner 's verdict is suicide. But his wife Isolde refuses to accept that Fred died by his own hand. With the stark realization that she knows 'zilch' about the nature and extent of Fred's law practice, she embarks on an investigation of her own, which takes her to Bern, Florence, and Paris. In Bern, she hires a private investigator, 'the great Fankhauser', to assist her in the hunt for Fred's murderer, which leads him on a dangerous and deadly mission into the heart of Rome. What follows is a series of spine-chilling occurrences involving a malevolent international organization and a mysterious secret poison, which both have their roots in the renowned Medici family of Renaissance Italy. The intrigue heightens to fever pitch when the hunted becomes the hunter and the hunter the hunted, with violence and dead bodies strewn along the paths, in a world fraught with fear and terror.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09NRZL3J8
• ISBN13: 9798789427361
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"