Louis and Beau L’Amour present a collaboration across time, an epic novel of Cold War suspense, as a pair of unlikely heroes, a woman without a name, and the undefeated agents of the Third Reich find themselves locked in a deadly race to control the greatest secret of the 20th century.
1961. The world is on the brink of nuclear war. Walls are dividing East and West. Empires are crumbling. And in Barcelona, chaos is unleashed when a rogue officer of the East German STASI attempts to blackmail a pair of struggling arms dealers. The secret—30 tons of stolen gold hidden in an icebound wilderness at the end of the world.
Mike Fowler is a former Navy salvage diver and OSS assassin. Anton Voss is an expatriate German scientist whose past grows darker the closer anyone looks. Once they might have been enemies, yet the two share an inseparable bond; they have saved one another's lives. But all of that is put at risk when Mike discovers Anton standing over a midnight visitor with a gun in his hand.
Now they're on the run, allied with gangsters, pursued by the CIA, Israeli intelligence, and a shadowy cabal bent on creating an invisible empire. The trail leads from the rain-soaked docks of Marseilles to the futuristic towers of Caracas and the ruins of a secret island laboratory in Argentine Patagonia. The only way for Mike Fowler to save his oldest friends, and the woman he loves, is to unlock a decades-old mystery buried in his partner’s Nazi past . . . before it destroys them all.
Includes a special postscript by Beau L'Amour detailing the history of the original unpublished manuscript and the process of collaborating with his father both before, and after, his passing.
Genre: Thriller
1961. The world is on the brink of nuclear war. Walls are dividing East and West. Empires are crumbling. And in Barcelona, chaos is unleashed when a rogue officer of the East German STASI attempts to blackmail a pair of struggling arms dealers. The secret—30 tons of stolen gold hidden in an icebound wilderness at the end of the world.
Mike Fowler is a former Navy salvage diver and OSS assassin. Anton Voss is an expatriate German scientist whose past grows darker the closer anyone looks. Once they might have been enemies, yet the two share an inseparable bond; they have saved one another's lives. But all of that is put at risk when Mike discovers Anton standing over a midnight visitor with a gun in his hand.
Now they're on the run, allied with gangsters, pursued by the CIA, Israeli intelligence, and a shadowy cabal bent on creating an invisible empire. The trail leads from the rain-soaked docks of Marseilles to the futuristic towers of Caracas and the ruins of a secret island laboratory in Argentine Patagonia. The only way for Mike Fowler to save his oldest friends, and the woman he loves, is to unlock a decades-old mystery buried in his partner’s Nazi past . . . before it destroys them all.
Includes a special postscript by Beau L'Amour detailing the history of the original unpublished manuscript and the process of collaborating with his father both before, and after, his passing.
Genre: Thriller
Praise for this book
"Louis and Beau L'Amour deliver a masterful Cold War adventure. What begins as a hunt for gold becomes a hunt for the truth. Skyring Water touches on the big themes - loyalty, history, and the costs of war. This novel delivers." - Elliot Ackerman
"Without a wasted word or an unnecessary sentence, this tale of intrigue springs directly from the mind of a master storyteller - deftly balancing sacrifice, loss and terror. My advice? You'll want to slow down the page turning and savor this gem of a read." - Steve Berry
"I bow and tip my hat to the amazing talents of Louis L'Amour and Beau L'Amour for Skyring Water. Not only did Louis L'Amour thoroughly entertain me while growing up, but he continues to do so with a wholly unexpected Cold War thriller." - C J Box
"In the master storyteller's new novel - brilliantly completed by his son Beau - Louis L'Amour unleashes a lightning-fast international thriller that roars far beyond the frontier. Raw, relentless, and packed with heart-stopping action, Skyring Water is classic adventure at its finest. Beau has done his father proud again." - Ryan Pote
"Without a wasted word or an unnecessary sentence, this tale of intrigue springs directly from the mind of a master storyteller - deftly balancing sacrifice, loss and terror. My advice? You'll want to slow down the page turning and savor this gem of a read." - Steve Berry
"I bow and tip my hat to the amazing talents of Louis L'Amour and Beau L'Amour for Skyring Water. Not only did Louis L'Amour thoroughly entertain me while growing up, but he continues to do so with a wholly unexpected Cold War thriller." - C J Box
"In the master storyteller's new novel - brilliantly completed by his son Beau - Louis L'Amour unleashes a lightning-fast international thriller that roars far beyond the frontier. Raw, relentless, and packed with heart-stopping action, Skyring Water is classic adventure at its finest. Beau has done his father proud again." - Ryan Pote