High Stakes
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History, myth, music, and murder—and Michael Knight is in the middle
An authentic Stradivarius violin turns up in Romania. A Stradivarius is rare enough, but this one is even more special. It is thought to hold the code disclosing the location of a treasure hidden in the fifteenth century. The violin is steeped in haunting mystique: it is believed to have been hidden by Vlad Dracula, whose historic tyranny led to the fabrication of the myth of vampirism. Russian, Chinese, and Romanian gangs centered in Boston want the code and all of them are hot on the trail. Violence is their language—brutality, their technique.
And who is hired to see that the treasure lands in the rightful place? None other than Michael Knight with a little help from his senior law partner Lex Devlin and his crony, Billy Coyne, Boston's deputy district attorney.
Michael uses the thin leverage of his knowledge about the violin to keep each of the three gang leaders at bay, while he follows the chain of historic clues from a violin shop in the Carpathian Mountains to a gangster-infested nightclub in Bucharest, to a university in Istanbul, and back to the gang headquarters of the three competing criminal organizations. Secrets from the past and present collide along the perilous shuttle between Boston and Romania. In the end, what is the righteous solution?
Perfect for fans of Daniel Silva and Steve Berry
While all of the novels in the Knight and Devlin Thriller Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:
Neon Dragon
Frame-Up
Black Diamond
Deadly Diamonds
Fatal Odds
High Stakes
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Dobbyn's pedestrian sixth Knight and Devlin novel (after 2016's Fatal Odds) takes lawyer Michael Knight from Boston to Romania. When Knight wins a car theft case defending Danny Liu, the young man's father, the head of the Chinese Merchants' Association, invites Knight to dinner and offers him an all-expenses-paid vacation at a spa in the Carpathian Mountains. All he has to do in return is bring back a priceless Stradivarius violin, to be found at a violin shop near the resort, for the Boston Symphony concert master. Despite some misgivings, Knight agrees. Once in Romania, he becomes the target of Russian gangs, the Chinese Tong, and dodgy Romanians. What he wasn't told by the grateful Mr. Liu is that the violin may hold the key to the whereabouts of a fabulous treasure amassed by Vlad the Impaler. Knight's senior law partner, Lex Devlin, and Boston deputy district attorney Billy Coyne lend a hand. Dobbyn offers no surprises, no wit, and no profound depth of feeling. This is for those who like action-packed escapist fiction, spiced with a dash of Dracula lore.
