Loser/Weepers…
A Novel inspired by actual events (400 pages ©2005
Subject: Missing
war booty
stolen at the close of WWII by Soviet occupation forces. A national treasure
and inadvertent discovery involves repatriation from a politically charged
former Soviet Republic, after 9-11. Corrupt USB (former KGB) officials and a
corrupt, thieving museum director selling the loot to the 'Black Market' in the West are
poised to thwart the effort. ….inspired
by actual event
see:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGIC,GGIC:2006-51,GGIC:en&q=director%2c+Ukraine+Historical+museums%2c+Lviv
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After the war, the libraries, archives and
museums of Ukraine were purged on ... 2004, but
the director of the Lviv Archives, Diana Pelz, denied
such thefts ...
ukrweekly.com/Archive/2005/450517.shtml - 9k - |
Genre: History - Action - Adventure - Crime & Political Intrigue - Europe/USA)
On Feb. 8, 1946, within nine months after the end of WWII a Soviet military convoy confiscates a huge, enormously valuable, historic arms & armor collection from Wartburg castle (Martin Luther) in Germany under the guise of disarmament. The collection disappeared and has not been located for more than 60 years.
In 2002, during Russian president Putin's visit to Weimar, German authorities repeatedly appealed for the return of the 'Wartburg Collection' without being aware of remarks made inadvertently and overheard by an American business man on a trip to an Eastern European nation immediately after 9-11. Neither were they privy to an American's personal inquiry and the eventual hair raising search undertaken on a personal scale, crisscrossing four countries of Central- and Eastern Europe amidst political turmoil, murder attempts and pursuit of recovery. High quality art as part of the collection was appearing on the Black Market in Vienna through a middle man, feeding a corrupt museum director's personal pockets. The collection entails an entire Rüstkammer (Armory) of more than 800 priceless items filling two rail cars 'Spoils of war', formerly an integral part of the Wartburg and the world's fifth largest, historic arms & armor collection. The recovery process via government negotiations is an ongoing progress at time of writing.
Currently, the priceless treasure remains hidden underground, stored in vaults at a military museum of a former Soviet republic, unbeknownst to the new Central Government; allowing a highly positioned, corrupt museum official to deal and sell for personal gain on the international art 'Black Market'.
An American's recovery effort in a country riddled with corruption and skullduggery intertwines with election fraud, murder, and poisoning of a presidential contender determined to lead his country towards the West.
Will the missing treasure return home after an eternity of searching in all the wrong places?
Are governments able to iron out their political differences; and what happens to corrupt individuals hawking parts of a National Treasure?
I'm no longer able to avail the Prologue in form of a reading sample for reasons of copyright protection, sorry about that; since the project is in the editing stage for completion.
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