Barry Raut

Devil's Gold Barry Raut

"You are my darling," murmurs Adolph Hitler in the ear of nine-year-old Erich Wolff, words that launch a life of perverse devotion to history's most heinous villain. Six decades later, Wolff is the tyrannical director of the venerable Mendelssohn Museum of Art. When Angela Desjardin, the museum's brash young curator, finds stolen masterpieces from WWII on its walls, the past explodes into the present. In her reckless, gunslinger style, Angela hacks a deadly back-trail to the closet Nazi's bizarre other life and triggers a bloody showdown-and in her relentless pursuit of justice long overdue, she reveals her own dark side which will change her forever. For readers intrigued by the menace of the Third Reich, the grisly milieu of old world crime, and back-of-the-house maneuvering in a prominent American art museum, "Devil's Gold" is a 24-carat, triple-threat thriller.