Could secret human experiments be carried out worldwide?

Find out in a “brilliant,” “captivating” thriller that will soon be in English. If you like action-packed Robert Ludlum-like stories, you’ll like this new addition to our lists. It’s a prize-winning spy novel that took France by storm reaping in superlatives: “Spellbinding,” “exceptional,” staggering,” “fascinating,” “astounding.” The book has sold over 100,000 copies already and catapulted its author into the ranks of the country’s top thriller writers.

We will launch our thriller collection on April 30 with bestselling The Bleiberg Project by French author David Khara, adapted into English by blockbuster movie translator Simon John. This action-packed espionage novel is the first in a series and was an instant success in France. Think a dash of Robin Cook, a splash of John Grisham, and pinch of Clive Cussler with a very distinctive voice all it’s own.

1942, Poland. The head of the SS meets secretly with a scientist in charge of a major Third Reich project.

Present day. After another late night with yet another woman whose name he doesn’t remember, self-pitying golden boy Jay Novacek learns that his long-lost father has died, precipitating events that lead him to board a plane to Zurich. He’s got a Nazi medallion in his pocket, a hot CIA bodyguard next to him, and a clearly dangerous Mossad agent on his tail. What was his father investigating? Why was his mother assassinated? Why are unknown sides fighting over him with automatic weapons? Far from his posh apartment, he races to save the world from a horrific conspiracy straight out of the darkest hours of history. Can it be stopped?

This is a really fun book, full of action, humor and likable characters, and this bestselling French author has real talent. It’s no surprise this book is being made into a movie.

“I got the idea for The Bleiberg Project from reading about World War II and its consequences on the world toady, and by watching testimonials from the period,” says the author David Khara. “I wanted to tell these stories in an entertaining, wild, frenzied even, book.”

An author to watch

French author David Khara studied law, worked as a reporter for Agence France Press, was a top-level athlete, and ran his own business for a number of years. Now, he is a full-time writer. Khara wrote his first novel—a vampire thriller—in 2010, before starting his Consortium thriller series.

Translator Simon John was born in the United Kingdom. After graduating from Cambridge University, he stage-managed and produced theatre for two years. A quest for wine, women and goat cheese led him to Paris, where he began working in film production and translation. While his focus has been on translating and subtitling movies, such as Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or-winner Love and blockbusters Taken 1 & 2, Simon has also translated for Yasmina Réza, the art magazine L’Officiel Art and gardening manuals. After twenty fertile years and 3,713 goat cheese salads in Paris, he is now based in Berlin.

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