Portland, Oregon
J. Auvergne, Detective: Paris 1897
by Will Gold
It is spring 1897 in Paris, the heart of the lush, lurid, violent “fin-de-siecle”. The new century is fast approaching. Beneath the already turbulent surface seethes a smoldering “social volcano” of anger, hardship, and rip-roaring radicalism that could explode at any moment. Jean Auvergne has been as a painter with the French Foreign Legion in North Africa and Indochina and is now launching his own detective agency in lower Montmartre. The theft of the Tree of Life, a rare work containing arcane secrets of the ancient Hebrew sacred science of kabbalah, has become the most urgent mystery he must now unravel. …More
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The New Century
by Will Gold
It is spring 1912, the height of the “Belle Epoque”. Lucien Davide has been roaming the world as a reporter for the Paris daily Le Temps covering France’s latest war of conquest in Morocco where he barely manages to escape from the bloody siege of Marrakesh by Berber tribesmen. From there, he is dispatched to the Balkans where the Ottoman Empire is beginning to break apart and his lover, Miriam, yearns for freedom from her family in tradition-bound Salonika. Lucien’s next stop is home to Paris for the largest peace conference ever held that is struggling to halt the growing momentum toward war between the great powers. …More
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Free Time: An Autobiograhical Memoir,
USA 1960-1978
by Will Gold
Free Time is a “road novel”, exuberant spiritual odyssey, and spirited high-energy ride. It is the story of “Steve Bieler” who has grown up in New Haven, Connecticut where his father works at Yale while retaining murky ties with the “intelligence community.” In spring 1968, at 16, Steve has been hit hard by the murders of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. Steve was a volunteer in the anti- Vietnam War Eugene McCarthy for President Campaign. Now, however, he is sensing something more sinister beneath the glossy, sanitized surface of life in America and is drawn to the liberation of the emerging “counter-culture”. …More