The Fuhrer's Reserve: A Novel of the FBI [Hardcover]

Paul Lindsay (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 9, 2000

One after another, aged Nazis are being murdered in Europe, South America, and the United States. Enter FBI Special Agent Taz Fallon, who soon discovers the killings aren't the work of a vigilante bent on revenge for the Holocaust. Instead, they turn out to be part of an elaborate plot to put a new generation of Nazis into power. And the key to the entire scheme is a huge cache of paintings looted by Hitler from Jewish families during the Second World War.

In "The Fuhrer's Reserve," Paul Lindsay weaves a tale of high stakes art smuggling, vicious homicides, and brilliant investigative prowess. Are Hitler's stolen masterpieces really hidden somewhere in Illinois?Could a secret Nazi sympathizer, known only as "der Kurator," actually sell these works of art to finance a new Fascist movement? Can agent Taz Fallon, working with a beautiful young art historian, risk destroying Rembrandts, Titians, Vermeers, and countless other treasures to stop a Nazi coup?With a storyline as authentic as today's headlines, Lindsay -- a former, highly decorated FBI agent himself -- provides page-turning thrills and captivating insights into the way real world sleuths solve unimaginable crimes.It's no wonder that "USA Today" has written of Paul Lindsay, "Step aside, John Grisham!"

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

It's hard to find a new angle on old Nazis, particularly those with cryptic deathbed clues to Hitler's buried treasure. But the current cultural preoccupation with the cloudy provenance of art masterpieces in many of the world's great museums, most notably those that disappeared from the collections of Jews in the 1930s and '40s, makes Lindsay's newest thriller especially relevant. FBI agent Taz Fallon retrieves a Chicago millionaire's son from kidnappers--a man with ties to militant Jewish organizations the Bureau would like to penetrate. But first the man wants another favor from Taz: finding a cache of masterpieces hidden across the Midwest decades ago by a mysterious man known as the Curator. The Curator has hired ruthless killers to retrieve the paintings, which will be sold to finance the resurgence of Nazism. Sivia, a beautiful young art historian who joins forces with Taz, has her own reasons for trying to beat them to the treasure. Deciphering the coded clues in one painting to the location of the next, Taz and Sivia catch up to the killers in a bloody, exciting denouement, but the real shocker is the Curator's identity, which will surprise even the most attentive reader. This dramatic, fast-paced story has an intriguing, iconoclastic hero, a plot as right now as today's headlines, and a solid grounding in the author's own 20 years with the FBI. --Jane Adams

From Publishers Weekly

In Lindsay's new thriller, irrepressible agent Taz Fallon swashbuckles through neo-Nazi assassins and psychotic Third Reich holdouts while finding romance and playing his uptight FBI boss like a baby grand. One of Germany's last war criminals has a plan to enact Hitler's scheme to rebuild the Reich, with the help of the cache of priceless art looted by Hitler and Goering and smuggled to America. The stolen art is slated to fund Rolf Brunner's campaign to bring the Neo-Nazi German Democratic Party to power in the next German elections. One of the priceless paintings handpicked from the looted stock has come up for auction in New York, and seductive Sivia Roth, an Israeli art researcher who tries to return stolen art and artifacts to their rightful owners, tracks the painting to Chicago, hooking up with Taz Fallon along the way. The sleuthing pair are thwarted by Kurt Decker, the ex-convict son of an SS officer, recruited by Brunner to kill the few people who have information about the art reserve. Decker happily slays old Nazis and spins a few tricks in hopes of making off with the art himself. With witty aplomb, FBI veteran Lindsay (Witness to the Truth) runs his cast through a minefield of violence and a plot full of hairpin curves. Fallon falls one step behind Decker investigating the clues at a murdered Nazi's Chicago home, and the reader is never sure if he will catch up. The interplay between Decker and Brunner echoes Fallon's tetchy relationship with his employer, helping to create a sturdy parallel plot line and accentuating the fumbles of the likable hero. A surprise ending will leave readers gasping. (May)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1 edition (May 9, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684854031
• ISBN-13: 978-0684854038
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,583,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Teleplay Quality, May 25, 2000

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Sandra Olsen "Insomniac" (Anaheim, CA) - See all my reviews
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I love plots that deal with hidden Nazi treasures. Yet, I put this book down after 125 pages. Life is too short for characters and narative of this mediocre quality. It is the literary equivalent of a really bad made for TV movie. Some day when I am really desperate for something to read I may go back to it just for the art info.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Readable, July 4, 2000

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Roger Lewis - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fuhrer's Reserve: A Novel of the FBI (Hardcover)

It is a good page turner and it would make a good T V movie.Its fairly technical re Longitudes and Latitudes I found the plot stretches the imagination. I gave it a 7.5 out of 10.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars another thriller about the FBI, May 2, 2000

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Pete Robinson "mprob1996" (Columbus, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews
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I continue to enjoy Paul Lindsay's books about the FBI...they are first class thrillers and The Fuhrer's Reserve is as good as the previous offerings...thoroughly enjoyable!