Skyring Water: A Novel

Skyring Water: A Novel

Louis and Beau L’Amour present a collaboration across time, an epic novel of Cold War suspense, as a pair of unlikely heroes, a woman without a name, and the undefeated agents of the Third Reich find themselves locked in a deadly race to control the greatest secret of the 20th century. 1961. The world is on the brink of nuclear war. Walls are dividing East and West. Empires are crumbling. And in Barcelona, chaos is unleashed when a rogue officer of the East German STASI attempts to blackmail a pair of struggling arms dealers. The secret—30 tons of stolen gold hidden in an icebound wilderness at the end of the world. Mike Fowler is a former Navy salvage diver and OSS assassin. Anton Voss is an expatriate German scientist whose past grows darker the closer anyone looks. Once they might have been enemies, yet the two share an inseparable bond; they have saved one another's lives. But all of that is put at risk when Mike discovers Anton standing over a midnight visitor with a gun in his hand. Now they're on the run, allied with gangsters, pursued by the CIA, Israeli intelligence, and a shadowy cabal bent on creating an invisible empire. The trail leads from the rain-soaked docks of Marseilles to the futuristic towers of Caracas and the ruins of a secret island laboratory in Argentine Patagonia. The only way for Mike Fowler to save his oldest friends, and the woman he loves, is to unlock a decades-old mystery buried in his partner’s Nazi past . . . before it destroys them all. Includes a special postscript by Beau L'Amour detailing the history of the original unpublished manuscript and the process of collaborating with his father both before, and after, his passing. “Louis and Beau L’Amour deliver a masterful Cold War adventure. What begins as a hunt for gold becomes a hunt for the truth. Skyring Water touches on the big themes—loyalty, history, and the costs of war. This novel delivers.” —Elliot Ackerman, author of Sheepdogs “In the master storyteller’s new novel—brilliantly completed by his son Beau—Louis L’Amour unleashes a lightning-fast international thriller that roars far beyond the frontier. Raw, relentless, and packed with the heart-stopping action, Skyring Water is classic adventure at its finest. Beau has done his father proud again.” —Ryan Pote, author of The Ghost City America’s master of adventure, the late Louis L'Amour has also thrilled readers with his work in the adventure, crime, and science fiction genres. There are more than 300 million copies of his books in print around the world. Beau L’Amour is a writer, art director, and editor. He has written and produced several films, including USA Network’s The Diamond of Jeru . Since 1988 he has been the manager of the estate of his father, Louis L’Amour.