Out 12 June
NO MAN’S LAND
Boston. St Patrick’s Day 1990. Two ‘guards’ break into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to thieve 13 artefacts. Neither the crime, the criminals, nor any of the priceless artworks have been seen since. It remains the world’s most valuable – and unsolved – art theft. So, who did steal them....?
NO MAN’S LAND
Boston, March 1990: During the St Patrick’s Day revelries, thirteen priceless works of art – a Vermeer, Rembrandts, a Manet – are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. With no leads for the police to follow, it seems as though they’ve all but evaporated into a bleak New England night…
On the South Fork of Long Island – one hundred and fifty miles away – Jake Dealer is amongst the last of a three-hundred-year tradition of America’s seafaring history. A fisherman born with an innate ability to read the Atlantic’s unforgiving waters, from which he ekes out a living; his horizons defined only by his family and the ocean.
A plot put into motion in Boston – where money and power hold different meanings – will change the course of his life. And when, in the wake of a devastating tragedy, Jake is unwittingly ensnared in the greatest unsolved art theft in history, he’s left fighting to cling on to the only certainties he has ever known.
A white-knuckle thriller and a haunting portrait of a disappearing American frontier, No Man’s Land weaves together themes of survival, redemption and the brutal price of silence. Simon Gaul charts new territory in the American literary seascape, creating an indelible portrait of both a vanishing way of life and the depths of human resilience. Just how far will someone go to protect what matters most?
TESTIMONIALS
PRAISE FOR NO MAN'S LAND
‘No Man’s Land tells a powerful story of violence, deception and redemption. A cast of unforgettable characters – from Long Island’s now-vanished baymen to ruthless con artists – and a $500 million art heist animate this ripping yarn of historical fact and fiction, producing a compelling story that you’ll relish from first page to last...’
Charles Glass,
author of Deserter and Americans in Paris
‘An enthralling thriller, inspired by the most fascinating unsolved art heist of all time, set against the death-throes of America’s seafaring traditions. Brilliant.’
Ray Celestin,
award-winning author, City Blues Quartet
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WHITE SUICIDE
White Suicide spins a story of espionage, secrecy and revenge in the months and years following the kidnapping and subsequent assassination of Aldo Moro. Known to be one of Italy’s, and the Cold War’s, visionary leaders, Aldo Moro served as Italian prime minister for two terms in the 1960s and 1970s. Despite his visionary status, he was a risk to NATO due to his close connection to the Italian Communist Party (PCI). Moro was kidnapped on 16 March 1978, the day he was set to attend a vote of confidence for a coalition government with the PCI. He was later assassinated after 54 days in captivity.
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