Church is offered a two million dollar fee for the successful recovery of the jewelry before it can be melted down into gold bullion or before it disappears into the shadowy antiquities market of Europe. Capitalizing on leads developed through a clever use of the internets deep web, Church sets out to intercept the militants before they can dispose of the collection.
Aided by a small team of Ex-Israeli military intelligence operatives, Church engages in a race against time that takes him from the Middle East to Cyprus and finally to eastern Europe, with deadly exchanges of gunfire all along the way.
Joseph W. Michels is a novelist who makes his home in San Francisco. ASSYRIAN GOLD is his ninth novel. Michels hitchhiked through the Middle East as a young man and enjoyed an earlier career as an archaeologist. Those experiences proved helpful to the author as he crafted the novel’s underlying fictional narrative.