The first of David Khara's Consortium Thrillers series to be translated from French to English, The Bleiberg Project introduces depressive Wall Street trader Jeremy Corbin.
Tragic events a few months earlier have left Jeremy struggling, which isn't helped by two army officers arriving to inform him his father (who abandoned the family 20 years earlier) is dead. But when Jeremy goes to tell his mother about his father's death, she responds by handing him a locket inscribed with a swastika. Bewildered, Jeremy follows the trail of clues that start with the locket, and he quickly discovers that his father's abandonment was a cover story for something far more dangerous. His dad, Lt. General Corbin, had been looking into a mysterious group called the Consortium, with shadowy ties to Nazi atrocities.
Jeremy's father had friends at Langley who want the younger Corbin to continue where his father left off, so they give him a hot CIA bodyguard named Jackie and instructions to head to Zurich. Jackie and Jeremy flirt their way to Switzerland, despite a scarily effective Mossad agent on their tail. Can Jeremy find out what the Consortium is up to and why his father was killed before the bad guys catch up with him?
The Bleiberg Project is a roller-coaster of a book, with terse prose that jumps back and forth from World War II to the present day. The truths that Jeremy and Jackie uncover are shocking, and frankly unbelievable, but the thrill of the ride helps to suspend disbelief. The Bleiberg Project is a fun, fast-paced thriller that is over all too quickly. --Jessica Howard, blogger at Quirky Bookworm