FRANCE! Spycraft, seduction, power centered in France... Marisol's primary attributes. The CIA required these in an agent to stop or blunt the wars on three continents now brewing. The Great Powers slowly find out what was discovered in Africa from space. It was common Lithium but in such amounts and concentrations that the owners or the deposits would control all global technology for at least a century. And who did they say she needed to help her out? No one as far as she was concerned, but she was ordered to attach a civilian to her team, an ordinary sort of guy, weak in self-esteem, but strong as a geologist. Yes. It was Steven Dunning, failed corporate geology guy, a second-tier musician, and OK school teacher. Someone they both knew saw them as a perfect match.

Plots twist and wind around the infamy of Marisol's family, complicit in the Holocaust, and the strivings of ethnic terrorists in Europe. Their chase can sometimes put them at the center of the art world, the music world, the Celtic World, the Occult World.... a travelogue through France, Spain, and the US West Coast and an all-out war in the Sahel of Africa... But not in her lavish home overlooking Lyon.

I love how Dan Brown took ancient Europe and welded it onto the present to rovoke a spy chase across Europe. Mine goes furtherto the Sahelof Africa and the California Coast but also includes druidic and cabalistic cabals. I was born in Brooklyn but came of age living in France and San Francisco. I am a geologist and professional musician by trade. I live in Medellin, Colombia.