Roseate Dawn: The Quest of Emma Scherrer - An alchemical fiction (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

The bizarre wartime mission of Nazi treasure hunters in France; the secrets uncovered today by a German’s granddaughter, some with surprisingly intimate and dangerous consequences. August 1944, the Allies have landed in southern France. Germany’s defeat is now simply a matter of time. Time, and indeed timing, are vital factors for Lieutenant Friedhelm Scherrer. Is there time for his small unit of German Army engineers to complete their mission? Can they remain hidden in the remote valley deep in the legendary lands of the Cathars until the dawn of the high and holy feast day of Maria Magdalena? Sixty years later other questions perplex Emma, the granddaughter of the Wehrmacht officer. What precisely was Scherrer’s mission? Why, after all these years, is Emma herself in danger? Why is a dead German soldier, buried in the local graveyard, recalled by the French villagers not as foe but benefactor? And in the sleepy hamlet Saint-André the whole puzzle becomes even more perplexing as she confronts some surprising discoveries concerning her own sexuality. How, above all, does Emma, a young woman with a promising career in investment banking in Munich, become involved not only with one of the more bizarre chapters of Second World War history but also with a secret older than Christendom? And who else is in the race to find the gold of the alchemists?