The war ended in 1945. The theft never did.
For decades, Alexis and James Barclay quietly hunted the fortune the Nazis stole from a continent in flames-gold, silver, priceless art, and the lives attached to them. Now that burden falls to their daughter, Chloe Barclay.
Trained by spies, survivors, and former enemies, Chloe has spent her life preparing for a mission history forgot. Deep in Venezuela’s treacherous Orinoco River lie sunken German U-boats loaded with stolen treasure, hidden by James and Alexis Barclay (and their OSS team) during the final days of World War II. Raising the treasures will require confronting ruthless opportunists, powerful financial institutions, Vatican intrigue, surviving Nazi networks, and killers determined to keep the past buried.
At Chloe’s side are her fiercely loyal protector Abilio and the enigmatic Maria, the strategist who sees danger before it arrives. Together they pursue a dangerous goal: not wealth, but restitution. Every recovered artifact carries a story. Every bar of gold belongs to someone who lost everything.
From Lisbon to Montevideo, the Falkland Islands to the Vatican’s shadowy banking corridors, The Orinoco Solution is a sweeping international thriller about stolen history, hidden fortunes, moral reckoning, and the enduring question of what justice looks like when the world has moved on.
Some debts never expire.
Some secrets were never meant to stay buried.

The Orinoco Solution is book 2 of the Orinoco Spy Series. Find the first book of the series, The Orinoco Gambit here, and stay tuned for the third book in the series, The Orinoco Conclusion.