FLUSHING, N.Y., July 1, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fiction books loosely based on a true story always contain a little bit of the amazing and the unbelievable, especially when it pertains to money and politics. Based on the life of a former Zionist, David Shamash explores this theme to spin an intricate web of theft, murder, and intrigue in his riveting new novel, Fortune.
In the quest of researching a long-forgotten family fortune, David Levy finds himself waking up in a hospital bed after being unconscious for two days. He discovers that he had been shot after leaving the home of a promising lead to his search, which he had located after fifteen years of searching. The person, Ahmed Sataar, had written an article a few decades back on an urn of jewels smuggled out of what was then Persia, the monetary equivalent of which had since been stashed in various financial institutions. Interestingly, the news article had matched a story about David's family's long-lost fortune. Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, David relentlessly pursues his research and, in a quest that becomes an intimate acquaintance with danger, uncovers an international network of murder and intrigue.
Will David solve the puzzle before he is found out? Part fiction, part autobiography, Fortune is a gripping story of incalculable corruption and greed that will take readers on an exhilarating adventure spanning the globe. To learn more about this riveting suspense novel, log on to www.Xlibris.com.
FORTUNE * by David Shamash
Publication Date: June 30, 2009
Trade Paperback; $19.99; 125 pages; 978-1-4363-1389-6
Cloth Hardback; $29.99; 125 pages; 978-1-4363-1403-9
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