The Girl with the Golden Eye: Book 1 in the Ethan Christenson Series

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Slavery, sexual exploitation, murder and conspiracy all force Ethan Christenson into a world he is completely unprepared. Denied deployment in the Army, he leaves for Europe to take a peaceful vacation. Instead his life erupts into passion for a woman that leads him into the espionage world of high finance and money laundering. A fight to the death erupts between two men, one of them is one of the richest men in the world. It is a fight with many casualties as the two men engage in the life and death struggle. The story centers on Ethan falling in love with a woman eight years older, Rietta, from Germany. She brings all that is good about Europe to his life enchanting him with old world charm. At the same time he gets a new job with a bank in Colorado precisely because he is already in Europe, and has a secret clearance from the military. The assignment seems simple at first, follow a man with a suitcase and watch him go from bank to bank with it. Together the new lovers accept the assignment. It doesn't turn out to be as simple as they thought as they follow a money trail that drags Ethan into conspiracy, money laundering, murder and intrigue. From vacationers in Greece to novice spies the pair find themselves in the secret chambers beneath the streets of Paris to the high class gentlemen's clubs of Switzerland and Germany. What they find leads Ethan and his romantic partner on a trail of the mysterious Phillip vonAugust, a master slave trafficker with a dozen names. Known to the world as a philanthropist and successful industrialist in the gold mining industry. Few know his real identity and or business, the slave trade of sexual trafficking world wide. Two mysterious women surround vonAugust, Sheryl and her life long friend Heather Hamilton. Both have been groomed from childhood by the master, raised to be the lure of his trade ensnaring the rich, powerful and politically corrupt. Ethan stumbles across these two beautiful women falling victim to their enchantments, but not before death begins to stalk him. The journey to find the truth of the evil master takes Ethan from the dark back streets of Europe to killing fields in Colorado as each man hunts the other in a life and death struggle. Along the way Ethan will find love, and a broken heart. He will use others for his purposes, while he is used by a conniving boss at home, and the alluring beauties each with their own scheme to get free from the master slave trafficker. Who will win? Who will survive? Who will live or die? That is the story of Ethan Christenson, based on true lives brought to fiction so the story could be told.