Provenance of Ashes

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Rapid-paced action burns from the pages where no one can be trusted and danger lurks around every turn. -Paulette Mahurin international best-selling author of <em>The Seven Year Dress</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the waning days of WWII a Nazi officer stashes masterpieces in a bunker only to seethe for years stranded behind the Berlin Wall. Decades later budding Mossad agent Beryl Jaffe and her banking magnate husband Marco Bellagio chase a tip about Nazi plundered paintings only to make a shocking discovery-former East German Stasi agent Werner Boesseneker is laundering his father's stolen paintings in the new millennium.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Realizing jet-set passions are no match for Beryl's nobler pursuits in hunting Werner Marco slowly yields to his wife's batting eyes and steely determination. Love loyalty and a quest for restitution drag him into the Mossad's embrace. When the couple near the truth about Werner's real identity they must confront a dark secret of their own buried deep in East Berlin. Will either side risk exposing past crimes to win today's cat-and-mouse battle? Beryl and Marco plot traps spanning the Mid-East Silicon Valley and Holland as modern-day spies counter legendary espionage guile.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jeff Ulin's thriller </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Provenance of Ashes</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> thrusts the weight of haunting history into a marriage grappling with higher priorities. Read it now and travel into a world of shadows where the mantra never forget motivates patriots of good and evil.</span></p>