The lost gold of an Albanian ruler.
A secret basement connecting powerful nations…And a bunch of carefree students swept up in a mission that will change everything.
Welcome to the Back Channel. A new thriller from Amazon best-selling author Andrew Anzur Clement.
Life is not as peaceful as it seems in Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia – and the only place in the world where the embassies of Russia, Germany and the United States are neighbors on the same city block.
No one pays much attention to the privileged sons and daughters of the diplomats who work in the embassies. They have befriended Janez, a Slovenian high school student who’s been living alone since his father disappeared. And Bekim, the son of a cruel Albanian gangster.
When a Fourth of July party at the American embassy takes a wrong turn, the international friends stumble upon the top-secret chamber beneath the embassies. It is fully equipped for a covert action force. The only problem? There’s no money to pay for secret agents.
Now that they know the secret, Janez and the others are dispatched to find the treasure of King Zog, missing since World War II. They must outwit the king’s demented grandson, who wants to grab the gold for himself and rule Albania as a dictator.
The quest will take them on an adventure in the Balkans that will test their friendship in ways they never imagined. Failure is not an option in the underworld of The Back Channel. They must find the gold – or die trying.
