Snow on the Golden Horn
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I drove up after practice and walked into the place at 5:30, our agreed-upon time and looked around. Saw an attractive woman with short black hair with a few streaks of gray and wearing a navy blue suit sitting alone at a table. We made eye contact and I figured it was she. I walked over to her table. “Ms. Palladino?” I asked. She half-stood and we shook hands. “Judy,” she said. “You must be Alan Llewellyn. Please have a seat.” She had a nice firm handshake. I guessed she was in her upper thirties. Close to my age. She wore very little makeup, which was good because she didn’t need much. Her most striking feature was her eyes. Large, dark blue--almost purple, widely spaced and very expressive. And she scrunched her eyes when she smiled, giving her grin a child-like quality that wasn’t at all unpleasant. Jewelry was minimalist, too. No hardware on the left hand. We exchanged pleasantries about how cold it was getting and how short the days were getting. A waitress came by. Judy ordered a glass of pinot grigio and I ordered a scotch and soda.
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Alan Llewellyn--teacher, sleuth or spy? If you asked him, he'd probably tell you "It depends." In "Snow on the Golden Horn," a beautiful young artist is kidnapped and a colleague asks Alan to help find her. What starts as a cold trail heats up rapidly as Alan follows clues leading him to the ancient splendor of Istanbul, the ghosts of Gallipoli and the sun-drenched, decadent splendor of Turkey's Turquoise Coast. Alan keeps his day job at Augustine Washington High School but confronts crises that are a ton more violent than kid fights in the cafeteria in the terrifying attempt to rescue the beautiful artist from the global grasp of the Russian Mafia.
About the Author
Walt Breede graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and served in the Marines for twenty-six years, pulling duty around the world as an artillery officer, mathematician and intelligence officer. Upon his "retirement," Breede became a high school teacher and coach in northern Virginia. He now lives in Jupiter, Florida with Betty, his wife of nearly five decades. They have five grown children and four grandchildren. He is trying--unsuccessfully, so far--to retire from teaching. "Snow on the Golden Horn" is his first novel.