Ex Libris: The Forbidden Books

From 1ST PLACE WINNER in PNWA fiction comes EX LIBRIS, an action-packed thriller of international deception and worldwide peril. --Dan Lovel, a former agent with the US Diplomatic Security Service, has saved lives, taken lives, and enraged a lot of people who still wish him dead. He now lives off the grid recovering stolen art and destroying counterfeits. Shortly before Christmas, Astrid Desmarais, a World Bank executive whom Dan once saved, asks him to steal five books from the locked collection of forbidden books in a monastery in Prague. Dan reluctantly agrees, but from the moment he enters the monastery, events explode into near chaos. What secrets do these books hold? Why have they been hidden for centuries? Why are people willing to kill to possess them? When Dan discovers the shocking truth of the last volume, he realizes its potential to ignite global conflict of unparalleled scale. He faces decisions that tear at his soul, but he must return to the life he tried to bury and draw on all his former skills to prevent nuclear war. Reminiscent of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, and Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, EX LIBRIS is a pulse-pounding page-turner that will keep you up at night. You will be thinking of its chilling ramifications long after finishing. John Oehler is a bestselling, multiple award-winning author. His other novels include Aphrodesia: Death by Passion, Papyrus, and Tepui: The Last Expedition.

• | Author: John Oehler
• | Publisher: Independently published
• | Publication Date: Sep 05, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 387 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1689376651
• | ISBN-13: 9781689376655