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From Amazon Bestseller Scott Blade, author of The Jack Widow Series, comes a gripping WWII epic spy thriller about lost art, politics, and assassins.
A mysterious painting hides a deadly secret. A secret that could rewrite history.
One morning, a painting appears in a London gallery. No one knows who hung it there. No one knows who painted it.
They call it The Secret of Lions.
The truth begins in 1924, in a German prison called Landsberg. A guard. A Jewish wife. A newborn son. A political prisoner with dead eyes and dangerous ideas.
When that prisoner walks free, he destroys everything the guard loves—and takes the child as his own.
That prisoner is Adolf Hitler.
From youth, Willem's gift for painting is extraordinary''so extraordinary that Hitler, once a failed artist himself, grows jealous. He forbids Willem from ever touching a brush again. Instead, the boy is sent to elite Nazi academies. Trained to kill. Trained to lead. Trained to rule. Groomed to inherit Hitler's reign at the seat of absolute power.
For years, Willem barely remembers his true parents. Only fragments. Only dreams. Only flashes of a life that was stolen from him.
Until 1939—when the memories begin to surface and a new assassin is born.
For fans of Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon, Steve Berry's Cotton Malone, and Ken Follett. The Secret of Lions delivers a riveting mix of buried history, stolen identity, and a secret the world was never meant to know. Preorder today!
Genre: Historical
A mysterious painting hides a deadly secret. A secret that could rewrite history.
One morning, a painting appears in a London gallery. No one knows who hung it there. No one knows who painted it.
They call it The Secret of Lions.
The truth begins in 1924, in a German prison called Landsberg. A guard. A Jewish wife. A newborn son. A political prisoner with dead eyes and dangerous ideas.
When that prisoner walks free, he destroys everything the guard loves—and takes the child as his own.
That prisoner is Adolf Hitler.
From youth, Willem's gift for painting is extraordinary''so extraordinary that Hitler, once a failed artist himself, grows jealous. He forbids Willem from ever touching a brush again. Instead, the boy is sent to elite Nazi academies. Trained to kill. Trained to lead. Trained to rule. Groomed to inherit Hitler's reign at the seat of absolute power.
For years, Willem barely remembers his true parents. Only fragments. Only dreams. Only flashes of a life that was stolen from him.
Until 1939—when the memories begin to surface and a new assassin is born.
For fans of Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon, Steve Berry's Cotton Malone, and Ken Follett. The Secret of Lions delivers a riveting mix of buried history, stolen identity, and a secret the world was never meant to know. Preorder today!
Genre: Historical
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