TO Snare A Wolf

Readers will be engrossed by the character's vivid realism and charismatic storytelling of a new voice in historical spy suspense. To Snare A Wolf is a beautiful crafted tale describing French and German agents' endeavors to steal secrets at the end of the nineteenth century. The action ranges through France, Germany and Switzerland. Women will love both the historical content and passionate love affairs; eavesdrop on conversations inside an Impressionist's artist' studio. Men will be absorbed by the military combat, flashing sword-fights using secret thrusts, pistol duels, and a circus clown operating an espionage ring in Paris. Sensuous scenes involve a Moulin Rouge nightclub act, Gypsy dancing girls in Pigalle, a look inside a Paris 1892 bordello, and captivating French courtesans. Christian Dejoux, the French hero, serves France in wartime as a drummer boy. He is wounded and later seeks revenge by spying in Berlin. He seduces a secretary in the Berlin Ministry of War and unintentionally falls in love with her. Wolfgang Lowenhardt, the adversary, who is born into an autocratic Berlin family, learns to swordfight in the Mensur fraternity duels. He believes Germany is destined to lead Europe. With a wolflike, sharp-featured face and topaz eyes, he uses his Wolf's head sword cane to dispose of French agents who are pursuing him as he tries to esscape to Germany.