As I approached my prime, I developed the powerful urge to write thrillers. My wife harbored the absurd suspicion midlife crisis had struck. I was bound in those days to courtroom and desk at the U.S. Attorney's Office, so my dream remained just that for a long time. When I retired, though, we moved to Arizona and I took things in hand by enrolling in a workshop for wannabe authors.
The workshop was a bust, but it did push me into tackling my first book, The Stasi File – Opera and Espionage: A Deadly Combination, in which I wove together the unlikely combination of my German upbringing, a lifelong love of opera and my experiences as an attorney. Soon the challenge of creating characters and building an intriguing plot filled my waking hours, and a few sleeping ones too. "My" characters and their actions took over, leaving me to serve as their scribe and menial servant. I was on my way and what a journey it has been!
In The Stasi File: Opera and Espionage—A Deadly Combination, a Washington trial lawyer and his former lover, an aspiring opera diva, are drawn into an assassination plot by a Stasi General desperate to prevent the collapse of the East German police state after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A quarterfinalist in the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, The Stasi File was named a finalist for Book of the Year and ranked a bestseller on the former British-Arts-Council sponsored critique site YouWriteOn. Reader comments compare the novel with those of Clancy, Ludlum and Follett.
The sequel, Kiss of the Shaman's Daughter, pits Stasi File protagonists, Sylvia and Rolf, against ruthless smugglers of Indian artifacts during Sylvia's engagement at the Santa Fe Opera, interweaving as subplot the story of a shaman's young daughter, Teya, who played a crucial in the Pueblo Indian Revolt of 1680 against the Spanish, and perhaps concealed the legendary treasure of a lost pueblo.
The fierce Cold War espionage battle between East– and West Germany inspired me to write Red Romeo, in which West Germany's premier spy hunter, ambitious Sabine Maier, faces off against ruthless Stasi General Werner Heinrich. Sabine has filled half a prison with communist spies, while Heinrich is the mastermind behind an army of spy gigolos who prey on lonely women working in the West German government's most secret divisions. Caught in the middle is ladies' man Stefan Malik, a reluctant Romeo, forced to do the general's bidding or rot in ...
Against the backdrop of the rugged Sangre de Cristo Mountains, aspiring diva SYLVIA MAZZONI hopes to combine her Santa Fe Opera debut and a romantic reunion with her lover, Washington attorney ROLF KELLER. But Rolf's old nemesis from law school, CHARLES SLATER, now an archaeologist, intrudes on their tryst. He is on the run from ruthless antiquities traffickers, who are after his recent find of prehistoric Indian artifacts.
After Slater vanishes under suspicious circumstances, Rolf plunges into the New Mexico wilderness to search for him and his priceless cache. Soon, he finds himself in desperate flight not only from the guns of the murderous smugglers, but from the FBI as well.
When the soprano slated to sing Tosca develops vocal problems, opera management drafts Sylvia as a last-minute replacement. While struggling to convert the daunting challenge into the career triumph she has pursued all her life, she and Rolf are threatened by the smugglers who will stop at nothing to get their hands on Slater's hoard.
As they unravel the twisted clues Slater left behind, Sylvia and Rolf stumble upon the intriguing legend of a shaman's young daughter, TEYA, who played a crucial role in the Pueblo Indian Revolt of 1680 against the Spanish oppressors and perhaps concealed the treasure of a lost pueblo.
Now, three centuries later, the paths of Teya, Sylvia and Rolf are about to cross in this riveting historical thriller involving archaeological crime, southwestern history and grand opera.
Second Place 2022 Arizona Authors Association Literary Contest
German Edition: Kuss der Schamanentochter―Revolte, Verlorener Schatz und Schmuggler (Diva Unverzagt Buch 2)
Also by Peter Bernhardt:
Prequel: The Stasi File―Opera and Espionage: A Deadly Combination (Diva Undaunted Book 1), 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Quarterfinalist; First Place 2022 Arizona Authors Association Literary Contest
German Edition: Die Stasi-Akte―Oper und Spionage: Eine tödliche Kombination (Diva Unverzagt Buch 1)
Red Romeo―Stasi Gigolos and the Spy Hunter of Germany (Inspired by Actual Events); First Prize 2023 Arizona Authors Association Literary Contest
German Edition: Roter Romeo―Stasi Gigolos und die Spionjägerin von Deutschland (Inspiriert durch tatsächlich zugetragene Ereignisse)
Título : Kiss of the Shaman's Daughter―Revolt, Lost Treasure, and Smugglers (Diva Undaunted Book 2)
EAN : 9781310119453
Editorial : Peter Bernhardt
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