BLOOMINGTON, Ind., December 4, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- "Steers' Innocence" (now available through 1st Books Library), by Peter Koenz, tells the story of Steers, young, good-looking, brilliant, self-assured -- unexpectedly, his world collapses: three tins of heroin are found in his luggage as he transits through Rome, having come from Bangkok.
Steers is arrested and swept into the Italian justice and prison system. After a mysteriously arranged escape before the end of a long prison sentence, he is caught up in the world of Italy's political extremism where he is expected to run one of the so-called "brigades" - the sham trial of a well-known American personality the terrorists plan to kidnap. When the plot misfires, Steers is passed on to one of the global drug empires which had been collaborating with the terrorists; there he leads a successful career as its top business manager operating under a false name out of New York, with links to Latin America and Europe. By then he has started to suspect that his new employers may have been responsible for his original arrest in a bungled effort to recruit him as a "mule." Several years later he is able to extricate himself, clear his record, resume his own identity and - after returning to his native New England town - find love and serenity in a new life.
Peter Koenz has lived and traveled widely in Europe, Asia and Latin America as a lawyer, international official and scholar; he resides at present in rural Normandy, even though in his heart - and in his writings - he continues to wander from New England to Tuscany, the rugged mountains of his native Switzerland, Northern India and Afghanistan, and the frontier country of central Brazil.
Other books by Peter Koenz include "Pacifica," "The Parrot Tree," "The Ancestor" and "The Destruct Rule."
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