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| Post-WW2 Spy Thriller |
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| Good Little Marauder |
| BY Matt Cook |
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1962: At a high-end art brokerage in Paris, Kate Atwell's friends know her as the lucky one. The daughter of a wealthy British family, she's got everything. Talent. Beauty. Privilege. A promising career as an art consultant.
And a secret...
Her name isn't Atwell. Her real father had been an officer in the Third Reich, and Germany's most infamous forger of art.
She's kept her family history buried for twenty years, ever since the awful night in 1942, when Allied soldiers had raided her home, crashing into her father's studio and gunning him down.
So much about that night is still shrouded in mystery. She'd escaped from Germany with a forged painting clutched tight in her trembling hands—a copy of William-Adolphe Bouguereau's portrait of a child, The Little Marauder.
What was the significance of the forgery? Why had her driver wanted so desperately to save it?
The mystery begins to unravel when Moritz Dahl—ostensibly an art student from Denmark—confronts Kate with information from her past. Before Moritz can share his own strange story, an attempt is made on both their lives.
On the run with a man she doesn't know or trust, Kate and her unwelcome companion must delve into an historical deception so profound that it threatens everything she knows and believes. |
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| REVIEWS |
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| “Immersive and authentic. Cook delves into Third Reich history with a refreshing approach, educating while entertaining. Fine art, spellbinding action, a family saga - everything discriminating readers want in an epic thriller. Thomas Crown Affair meets Schlinder's List. Brilliant." |
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| K.J. Howe, International bestselling author of Skyjack.
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| “Matt Cook spins an engrossing tale with Good Little Marauder. An intense mystery, wrapped inside a thriller and populated with characters you'll be drawn to even knowing they may betray you or each other at any moment. This one is not to be missed." |
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| Graham Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Rising Sea.
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| “An adrenaline-laced adventure novel with dark historical underpinnings. Don't make any plans for the evening; you won't be putting this book down anytime soon." |
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| Jeff Edwards, Bestselling author of Steel Wind and The Damocles Agenda.
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| “Good Little Marauder establishes Cook as a force to be reckoned with now and for a long time to come. The story is both big and great, an international thriller in top form. Matt Cook adds a historical, literary bent to a high-stakes, no-holds-barred tale that makes us feel as well as think." |
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| Jon Land, USA Today bestselling author of the Murder, She Wrote series.
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| “Coming on the heels of his critically acclaimed, Sabotage, Matt Cook delivers again with his latest thriller, Good Little Marauder. This page-turner grabs you and doesn't let you go. A hunters-being-hunted story that spans continents, Good Little Marauder will take you on an exciting journey you won't forget." |
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| George Galdorisi, New York Times bestselling author of Act of Valor.
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