A little boy murdered in the most tragic of circumstances, and avenging angels determined to exact revenge on the perpetrators. Obsessed, unscrupulous art collectors and the international antiquities thieves who service their desires. The Olympic Games and an elite group of corrupt Chinese agents double-crossing each other. An organized crime family trying to go (kind of) straight. And an ambitious, underperforming businessman, desperate to make the big leagues and overtake his father’s considerable achievements.
What could they all possibly have in common? Livia Galvin – grieving mother, Olympic shooting champion, art gallery owner, and now, an unwitting participant in a conspiracy to deliver a rare and priceless artifact to a billionaire Chinese oligarch.
After her young son, Dan, is kidnapped and murdered in Columbia, Livia fulfills his ambition for her to win an Olympic gold medal. But on her way to Beijing airport, and home, she’s mysteriously attacked by would-be assassins. They’re after something, and her friend and driver, police detective Yani Lee, knows what it is, but he isn’t telling, yet.
Livia returns home to River City to find her godmother dead and her family in disarray. It’s only the beginning of a quest in which Livia will need all of her considerable strength of purpose and character to accept her unexpected new role when the most startling and life-changing surprise of all is unveiled.
With new revelations and threats at every turn, Livia Galvin and her most faithful supporters must truly ‘imitate the actions of the tiger, and summon up the blood’ in this novel of intrigue and passion that stretches from Bogota to Boston, and from Beijing to London, with its ultimate source in sub-tropical River City on the 27th parallel – the sunniest place in the world for some of the shadiest people you’ll ever meet.
What could they all possibly have in common? Livia Galvin – grieving mother, Olympic shooting champion, art gallery owner, and now, an unwitting participant in a conspiracy to deliver a rare and priceless artifact to a billionaire Chinese oligarch.
After her young son, Dan, is kidnapped and murdered in Columbia, Livia fulfills his ambition for her to win an Olympic gold medal. But on her way to Beijing airport, and home, she’s mysteriously attacked by would-be assassins. They’re after something, and her friend and driver, police detective Yani Lee, knows what it is, but he isn’t telling, yet.
Livia returns home to River City to find her godmother dead and her family in disarray. It’s only the beginning of a quest in which Livia will need all of her considerable strength of purpose and character to accept her unexpected new role when the most startling and life-changing surprise of all is unveiled.
With new revelations and threats at every turn, Livia Galvin and her most faithful supporters must truly ‘imitate the actions of the tiger, and summon up the blood’ in this novel of intrigue and passion that stretches from Bogota to Boston, and from Beijing to London, with its ultimate source in sub-tropical River City on the 27th parallel – the sunniest place in the world for some of the shadiest people you’ll ever meet.
