Last Stop: Paris (Eddie Grant Saga) - Softcover

Pearce, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0985962623 ISBN 13: 9780985962623

Publisher: Alesia Press, 2015

Synopsis

A full-throttle adventure through modern Europe and the Mediterranean in a book that’s part thriller, part mystery, and all rollicking ride... An exhilarating journey that will satisfy the most avid thriller reader. Pearce again accomplishes every thriller writer’s aim: creating characters that the readers can root for and a believable, fast-paced storyline. The climax and denouement bring the storylines together neatly, but fans will see that there may yet be room for another book in the series.- Kirkus

About this title

About the Author

I've been a serious fan of Paris since the seventies, when my new wife Jan, already a frequent visitor, guided me on my first tour. In the decades since, we've lived in Germany and visited Paris many times, to the point that I feel as much at home there as I do in Sarasota, where we live for most of the year.

 

When we left Frankfurt in the mid-70s we spent a couple of months touring Italy and Greece before we returned to Washington. We spent hours probing the relics of classical civilization and enjoying the good food, and in my spare time I tried to starting writing a Cold War spy novel. I was going to be the next Le Carré. That didn't work out so well -- I found the notebook, containing several pages of a mangled opening chapter, on a closet shelf last year.

 

I got around to that first novel in 2012, after months of pondering a very different plot, one based on the knowledge of Paris I'd accumulated over dozens of visits. "Treasure of Saint-Lazare" came out at the end of the year, followed by "Last Stop: Paris" in 2015. The third, "Finding Pegasus," is a 2018 project. I think I'm learning how to do it and can push up the pace a bit, so I hope to have a fourth one out in less than a year, and there's a list of plots waiting for later.

 

The good people at Readers' Favorite, the big review website, chose Treasure as its highest-ranked historical mystery of 2014. Shelf Unbound Magazine picked Last Stop as one of the ten best indie books of 2015, for which I thank both of them.

 

You can follow my blog at PartTimeParisian.com and my books at JohnPearceBooks.com. I invite you to join my mailing list, which I call the Eddie Grant Readers Group after the protagonist of my first two novels. You can subscribe on either of my sites and, of course, unsubscribe any time.

 

I hope you enjoy my books.

 

John Pearce

Sarasota, May 2018

Edition details

• Publisher: Alesia Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0985962623
• ISBN 13: 9780985962623
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258