{"product_id":"9781504028967","title":"Taking Liberty","description":"In this sprawling novel of suspense and terror, a ruthless professional killer, a disillusioned career spy, and a beautiful Sorbonne professor cross paths with Moscow intelligence. They are all in a race to find the fabled Romanov jewels, smuggled out of Russia a century ago and secreted inside the Statue of Liberty before it was shipped from France to New York. The scene shifts compellingly from the present-day United Nations building to the Czarist Russia of Alexander II, the elegant boulevards of Paris and the sun-drenched Cote d’Azur, and ends in a spectacle of violence at America’s shining symbol of freedom standing in New York Harbor.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The international hunt is interwoven with the efforts of Paris-based CIA agent Martin Toberts, his new-found love Solange Cordier who holds a secret more than a hundred years old, and his bloody-minded nemesis Pell Bruckner, a rogue agent intent on only one thing—satisfying his lust for personal wealth—at the expense of anyone or anything that stands in his way.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e It is, finally, a story of staggering wealth secreted in a place no one can believe, causing individuals and nations to kill for it and, in some cases, die for it.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145573515504,"sku":"9781504028967","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504028967_p0.jpg?v=1763711352","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504028967","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}