Hotshot maritime lawyer Jonathan Brooks may finally be in over his head. He can't find evidence that his client's ship was rammed by a U.S. Navy vessel--evidence he needs to win his trial and help his client escape bankruptcy. But after Jonathan's courtroom tactics expose a Navy captain lying under oath, the case takes a series of shocking turns, dredging up haunting memories of Jonathan's deceased brother. He soon realizes that the trial masks a vastly more sinister plot veiled by the shadowy past of the Cold War. To uncover it, he's forced to risk everything--and everyone--he holds dear. Lives and corporate empires hang in the balance as he embarks on a hunt for the truth, which will lead him through the sultry alleys of New Orleans to remote Scandinavian villages, and deep into Moscow's dark corridors of power.
A.C. Frieden (André Frieden) is an international author of political/espionage mysteries and thrillers, including TRANQUILITY DENIED and CANVAS SUNSETS NEVER FADE, and short stories that have been published in various books and collections, including SIN: A DEADLY ANTHOLOGY. Frieden is also an attorney, pilot, martial artist, law professor, equestrian, globetrotter, adventurer, and former army sniper and molecular biologist.
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Frieden was born in Senegal (West Africa), raised in India, Brazil, Switzerland and the UK, and later moved to the United States, where he received two masters, a law degree, a pilot's license, a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and nurtured his thirst for adventure and his passion for writing mysteries and thrillers. After completing graduate school in Dallas, law school in New Orleans, specialized legal studies in Russia and Austria, and a post-graduate law degree in Chicago, Frieden worked for two major law firms representing Fortune 100 companies, government agencies and leading technology companies. He then worked several years as senior corporate counsel with North America's largest educational services company.
Today, in addition to his fiction writing, Frieden serves as Assistant General Counsel for one of world's largest information services and publishing companies and also teaches multimedia and IP law courses at Columbia College Chicago. He speaks French, Portuguese, Spanish, English and some Russian, and has traveled to nearly sixty countries so far and lived in five, international experience he weaves into his novels. When not practicing law or writing, you'll likely find him scouring the globe for scenes, plots, and expert advice, such as his recent investigative trip to North Korea, clandestine research of the coup in Honduras, hunt for a murder scene in Morocco, search of colonial archives in Vietnam, examination of Serbia's wartime past, covert look into Venezuela's volatile political labyrinth, and in-depth study of Moscow's former Cold War apparatchiki.
Frieden is part of the acclaimed "Chicago Contingent" writers' group and a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Chicago Writers Association, International Association of Crime Writers, and Military Writers Society of America. He is currently working on two sequel thrillers in the Jonathan Brooks series, as well as other novels and anthologies, including OUR TIMELESS DAYS, a collection of short stories inspired by his recent travels to North Korea and China.
