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Learn moreThe Tenth Witness, a prequel to the award-winning All Cry Chaos, is the tale of a man upended: a twenty-eight-year-old who rejects a brilliant career in engineering for a dark, uncertain one in international police work.
On the night of October 9, 1799, the frigate HMS Lutine broke apart on the shoals of the Frisian Islands off the Dutch coast. When the insurer Lloyds of London paid on the wreck, it took ownership and planned expeditions to recoup the lost millions in gold and silver. Nearly two hundred years later, after a series of largely failed salvage operations, Lloyds tries againâthis time on the strength of new technologies and a strategy devised by the gifted young engineer Henri PoincarâÂź.
It is late spring 1978, and PoincarâÂź has worked nearly to exhaustion preparing for the Lutine dive. Before the salvage season begins, however, he takes a rare holiday: a hike at low tide across the vast, muddy flats of the Wadden Sea. His guide is Liesel Kraus, who is smart, able, appealingâand troubled. She and her brother Anselm are haunted by a violent history that generates both rage and, as the directors of Kraus Steel, an enormous, corrupting wealth. The closer PoincarâÂź draws to Liesel and Anselm, the more warped life becomes until, finally, love and a death threat compel him to investigate what no one else willâaside from Interpol. It seems that pain as well as treasure can be dredged up from the past to reshape the present.
Leonard Rosen is the author of All Cry Chaos, winner of the 2012 Macavity Award for Best First Novel and ForeWordâs Editorâs Choice Prize in 2011. He has taught writing at Harvard University.
Grover Gardner (a.k.a. Tom Parker) is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the âBest Voices of the Centuryâ and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.
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âThe Tenth Witness offers a thoughtful treatise on what it is to forget, to forgive, and to take responsibility for the past. In Henri PoincarĂ©, readers of all ages can appreciate the terrible beauty of a life lived with love for others.â
âIf every author s primary responsibility is to keep the reader turning the page while mumbling the mantra just one more chapterâŠjust one more chapter then Leonard Rosen has more than accomplished this goal with The Tenth WitnessâŠYou will not be disappointed.â
âPoincarĂ©âs character is deeply developed, as Rosen combines a probing Holocaust story with elements of an action thrilller. A fine novel and further indication that Rosen is a writer of immense talent.â
âIn Rosenâs strong prequel to his 2011 debut, All Cry Chaos, Henri PoincarĂ©, not yet an Interpol agent, uncovers a startling secret that brings back the ghosts of WWIIâŠRosen writes with polish and confidence. His plot develops slowly, but like a gold bar hidden at the bottom of the sea, itâs worth the wait.â
âA prequel to Rosenâs acclaimed mystery debut, All Cry Chaos, which was set thirty years later when Henri was working as an Interpol investigator. Rosen relies on literary background and considerable research skillfully to portray Henriâs confrontation with the nature of evil and his developing detective talents in investigating both dead Nazis and living ones. Another winner.â
âYears before the events of Henri PoincarĂ©âs striking debut, the future Interpol agent, now a consulting engineer, gets dragged into an equally grueling case when his treasure hunt turns into a Nazi huntâŠRosen uses this familiar background to tell a story as heartfelt as it is ambitious.â
âThe Tenth Witness is a brilliant follow-up to Rosenâs first thriller. Here is an author who cares as much about the pained human heart as a page-turning plot and manages to infuse this book with pathos, wit, wonder, fabulous historical detail, mystery, and breathless anticipation. If youâre looking for a smart thrillerâlook no furtherâRosen is stupendous!â
âRosen has a fine detective in PoincarĂ©.â
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