The Fire Beneath
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Beneath the Paint
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- ISBN8231040308
- EAN9798231040308
- Date de parution07/10/2025
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- ÉditeurWalzone Press
Résumé
Former Army colonel Martin Roberts has built a second life in quiet rooms, coaxing history back to the surface. During a late session in a Washington conservation studio he lifts a sun dark varnish and finds a secret no archive admits: a precise island map inked beneath the paint. The coordinates match nothing. The symbols hint at intent. Only one colleague, forensic anthropologist Mary Anna Lepksy, believes what the lines imply and agrees to help him test it in silence.
Their discretion collapses when a zealous curator notifies the painting's owner, Edward Finnegan, a retired king who prefers shadows to headlines. Finnegan dispatches Vince Flynn, a special operations talent now running his security, to verify the discovery and control the story. Martin and Mary take leave, book a resort hop to Vanuatu, and charter a quiet helicopter. Using the map's strange geometry, they bushwhack to a seam in a cliff and open a bunker that has kept its temper since the war.
Inside lie shot sentries, poisoned officers, crates of gold, and storerooms of stolen art. Vince follows by sea with a small strike team. Age, pressure, and bad choices turn corridors fatal, and a chase becomes a duel in steel. When the smoke clears, two witnesses remain. Wounded, Martin reaches daylight because Mary drags him from a catwalk as machinery claims Vince. They return to Washington and do the only right thing.
The Commission for Looted Art in Europe accepts their report, the Vanuatu government and UNESCO secure the site, and a strict chain of custody begins. Families will receive letters before any headline breathes their names. Donors reward the pair for choosing light over silence. The canvas goes back to Finnegan with nothing left to leverage. A home waits in New Zealand, and a heartbeat gathers its first tide.
Their discretion collapses when a zealous curator notifies the painting's owner, Edward Finnegan, a retired king who prefers shadows to headlines. Finnegan dispatches Vince Flynn, a special operations talent now running his security, to verify the discovery and control the story. Martin and Mary take leave, book a resort hop to Vanuatu, and charter a quiet helicopter. Using the map's strange geometry, they bushwhack to a seam in a cliff and open a bunker that has kept its temper since the war.
Inside lie shot sentries, poisoned officers, crates of gold, and storerooms of stolen art. Vince follows by sea with a small strike team. Age, pressure, and bad choices turn corridors fatal, and a chase becomes a duel in steel. When the smoke clears, two witnesses remain. Wounded, Martin reaches daylight because Mary drags him from a catwalk as machinery claims Vince. They return to Washington and do the only right thing.
The Commission for Looted Art in Europe accepts their report, the Vanuatu government and UNESCO secure the site, and a strict chain of custody begins. Families will receive letters before any headline breathes their names. Donors reward the pair for choosing light over silence. The canvas goes back to Finnegan with nothing left to leverage. A home waits in New Zealand, and a heartbeat gathers its first tide.
Former Army colonel Martin Roberts has built a second life in quiet rooms, coaxing history back to the surface. During a late session in a Washington conservation studio he lifts a sun dark varnish and finds a secret no archive admits: a precise island map inked beneath the paint. The coordinates match nothing. The symbols hint at intent. Only one colleague, forensic anthropologist Mary Anna Lepksy, believes what the lines imply and agrees to help him test it in silence.
Their discretion collapses when a zealous curator notifies the painting's owner, Edward Finnegan, a retired king who prefers shadows to headlines. Finnegan dispatches Vince Flynn, a special operations talent now running his security, to verify the discovery and control the story. Martin and Mary take leave, book a resort hop to Vanuatu, and charter a quiet helicopter. Using the map's strange geometry, they bushwhack to a seam in a cliff and open a bunker that has kept its temper since the war.
Inside lie shot sentries, poisoned officers, crates of gold, and storerooms of stolen art. Vince follows by sea with a small strike team. Age, pressure, and bad choices turn corridors fatal, and a chase becomes a duel in steel. When the smoke clears, two witnesses remain. Wounded, Martin reaches daylight because Mary drags him from a catwalk as machinery claims Vince. They return to Washington and do the only right thing.
The Commission for Looted Art in Europe accepts their report, the Vanuatu government and UNESCO secure the site, and a strict chain of custody begins. Families will receive letters before any headline breathes their names. Donors reward the pair for choosing light over silence. The canvas goes back to Finnegan with nothing left to leverage. A home waits in New Zealand, and a heartbeat gathers its first tide.
Their discretion collapses when a zealous curator notifies the painting's owner, Edward Finnegan, a retired king who prefers shadows to headlines. Finnegan dispatches Vince Flynn, a special operations talent now running his security, to verify the discovery and control the story. Martin and Mary take leave, book a resort hop to Vanuatu, and charter a quiet helicopter. Using the map's strange geometry, they bushwhack to a seam in a cliff and open a bunker that has kept its temper since the war.
Inside lie shot sentries, poisoned officers, crates of gold, and storerooms of stolen art. Vince follows by sea with a small strike team. Age, pressure, and bad choices turn corridors fatal, and a chase becomes a duel in steel. When the smoke clears, two witnesses remain. Wounded, Martin reaches daylight because Mary drags him from a catwalk as machinery claims Vince. They return to Washington and do the only right thing.
The Commission for Looted Art in Europe accepts their report, the Vanuatu government and UNESCO secure the site, and a strict chain of custody begins. Families will receive letters before any headline breathes their names. Donors reward the pair for choosing light over silence. The canvas goes back to Finnegan with nothing left to leverage. A home waits in New Zealand, and a heartbeat gathers its first tide.
