Four months before the events of Blood and Treasure…
In the dense jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, investigative journalist Lana Foster walks into a warlord’s camp alone. Her target: General Ferrand Malik and his black-market rosewood operation, a multimillion-dollar racket feeding China’s insatiable demand for the endangered timber. Armed with nothing but a hidden button camera and her nerve, Lana is the tip of a covert spear for a joint interagency task force hunting transnational criminals. When the deal turns deadly and a pool cue becomes a weapon aimed at her face, the only thing standing between her and a message written in blood is a team of silent operators.
Half a world away, on the frozen slopes of Mount Kazbek in Georgia, former special-ops pilot and treasure hunter Ethan Cain descends into a glacier-bound wreck of a World War II German bomber. His prize: a leather satchel of Nazi Ahnenerbe dispatches that have waited eighty years in the ice. But he’s not alone. Armed men close in as the ancient aircraft groans and begins to slip into a bottomless canyon. One wrong step—or one incoming satellite call from an ex-girlfriend who thinks he’s surveying a dam in Portugal—and everything ends in the white abyss.
Two desperate missions. One fractured relationship. And the first threads of a conspiracy that will soon bind blood, treasure, and the fate of more than just two people.
The Lost Chapters: Rosewood is the pulse-pounding extended prologue to Ryan Pote’s debut thriller Blood and Treasure—a high-octane taste of the action, authentic military detail, and relentless pacing that fans of Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy crave.
Genre: Thriller
In the dense jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, investigative journalist Lana Foster walks into a warlord’s camp alone. Her target: General Ferrand Malik and his black-market rosewood operation, a multimillion-dollar racket feeding China’s insatiable demand for the endangered timber. Armed with nothing but a hidden button camera and her nerve, Lana is the tip of a covert spear for a joint interagency task force hunting transnational criminals. When the deal turns deadly and a pool cue becomes a weapon aimed at her face, the only thing standing between her and a message written in blood is a team of silent operators.
Half a world away, on the frozen slopes of Mount Kazbek in Georgia, former special-ops pilot and treasure hunter Ethan Cain descends into a glacier-bound wreck of a World War II German bomber. His prize: a leather satchel of Nazi Ahnenerbe dispatches that have waited eighty years in the ice. But he’s not alone. Armed men close in as the ancient aircraft groans and begins to slip into a bottomless canyon. One wrong step—or one incoming satellite call from an ex-girlfriend who thinks he’s surveying a dam in Portugal—and everything ends in the white abyss.
Two desperate missions. One fractured relationship. And the first threads of a conspiracy that will soon bind blood, treasure, and the fate of more than just two people.
The Lost Chapters: Rosewood is the pulse-pounding extended prologue to Ryan Pote’s debut thriller Blood and Treasure—a high-octane taste of the action, authentic military detail, and relentless pacing that fans of Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy crave.
Genre: Thriller