History, myth, music, and murder--and Michael Knight is in the
middle
An authentic Stradivarius violin turns up in Romania. A Stradivarius is
rare enough, but this one is even more special. It is thought to hold
the code disclosing the location of a treasure hidden in the fifteenth
century. The violin is steeped in haunting mystique: it is believed to
have been hidden by Vlad Dracula, whose historic tyranny led to the
fabrication of the myth of vampirism. Russian, Chinese, and Romanian
gangs centered in Boston want the code and all of them are hot on the
trail. Violence is their language--brutality, their technique.
And who is hired to see that the treasure lands in the rightful place?
None other than Michael Knight with a little help from his senior law
partner Lex Devlin and his crony, Billy Coyne, Boston's deputy district
attorney.
Michael uses the thin leverage of his knowledge about the violin to keep
each of the three gang leaders at bay, while he follows the chain of
historic clues from a violin shop in the Carpathian Mountains to a
gangster-infested nightclub in Bucharest, to a university in Istanbul,
and back to the gang headquarters of the three competing criminal
organizations. Secrets from the past and present collide along the
perilous shuttle between Boston and Romania. In the end, what is the
righteous solution?
Perfect for fans of Daniel Silva and Steve Berry
While all of the novels in the Knight and Devlin Thriller Series stand
on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:
Neon Dragon
Frame-Up
Black Diamond
Deadly Diamonds
Fatal Odds
High Stakes
