Publisher's Synopsis
For centuries the fate of the real Maltese Falcon remained a mystery...until now!The Falcon...death is at the heart of it, death and the blood of its victims. Its fabulous wealth has lured greedy prey across the centuries. Chicago P.I. Joe Ganzer, a haunted former WWII espionage agent, gets trapped in this fowler's net by a mysterious Russian beauty trying to locate her uncle, a former Soviet general. Her story doesn't add up but her money does. And an old pal circling the drain needs Joe's help to get him out of a treacherous jam that may claim both their lives. Dark days are about to descend on Joe Ganzer. He will run a gauntlet of Cold War spies, Nazis, stolen booze, stolen art, and at the end of it all is the Falcon of Malta...the stuff nightmares are made of.What they are saying--"The characters you meet in this story are fun, and the villains are dastardly. But the real shocker is how the Maltese Falcon surfaces. That's all I can say without spoiling it."
