The Heartland Trilogy, Book Two

Angel in the Shadows

'Ambitious, intricate, riveting' The Times 
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 Farah Hafez raised her head and stared into the camcorder's reflective black hole. 
 
 'Now say what I want you to say. And do it convincingly. You can save this girl's life.' 
 
 That's when the words came. Unexpected and forceful. Like vomit. 
 
 'I, Farah Hafez, support the jihad against President Potanin's criminal regime.' 
 
 He smiled coldly and pulled the trigger anyway. 
 
 
 After investigating what appeared to be a simple hit-and-run, journalist Farah Hafez became caught up in a web of crime and corruption that led to her kidnap. Detained in Russia, she was forced to pledge her allegiance to a terrorist group on camera. 
 
 Now sought by international security and members of the criminal class alike, Farah flees to Jakarta to continue her investigation while her friends and allies attempt to clear her name from across the globe. 
 
 If Farah is ever going to regain her freedom, she needs to discover the root of the evil that bought her here. The problem is that discovering this might cost her her life. 
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 'Disturbing, apocalyptic, gripping' Dutch Daily De Limburger 
 
 'Riveting until the very end' AD Weekend [Dutch Newspaper] 
 
 'The Dutch answer to the tsunami of Scandinavian thrillers' BB Boekblad

It's been compared to Stieg Larsson's Millennium series ... Butterfly on the Storm is a compelling, engrossing read ... Walter Lucius is one to watch

The Dutch answer to the tsunami of Scandinavian thrillers

Walter Lucius is the pseudonym of screenwriter, director and producer Walter Goverde. Walter used to be a stage director, and has produced dramas, documentaries and various television series as well. He has also founded Odyssee Producties, an audio-visual company with which he has carried out several projects for a number of Dutch government ministries. Walter lives in Amsterdam.

Journalist Farah Hafez has been kidnapped. Detained in Russia, she is forced to pledge her allegiance to a terrorist group on camera. 
 
Now sought by international security and members of the criminal class alike, Farah flees to Jakarta. 
 
If she is ever going to regain her freedom, she needs to discover the root of the evil that bought her here. The problem is that discovering this might cost Farah her life.

Heartland Trilogy Book 1

Butterfly on the Storm

'Ambitious, intricate, riveting' The Times 
 
** The first instalment in the bestselling original Dutch thriller** 
 
 Haunted by a past you can never escape . . . 
 
When a young boy from Afghanistan is the victim of a brutal hit-and-run in woods outside Amsterdam journalist Farah Hafez visits the scene, seeking to discover how a child from her homeland ended up here. Instead, she finds a burnt-out car and two bodied - sinister clues to a far darker mystery. 
It is the beginning of a journey that leads her into an intricate web of crime and corruption stretching across Europe and deep into a past that Farah had once sought to escape - a past that nearly killed her. 
 
And if she goes back will she ever make it out again? 
 
 
 Butterfly on the Storm is the first mystery to unravel in a tense, explosive and gripping new trilogy you won't want to put down. For lovers of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series, this fast-paced crime novel will be this year's page-turner. 
 
Praise for Walter Lucius 
 
 'Disturbing, apocalyptic, gripping' Dutch Daily De Limburger 
 
 'Riveting until the very end' AD Weekend [Dutch Newspaper] 
 
 'The Dutch answer to the tsunami of Scandinavian thrillers' BB Boekblad

Journalist Farah Hafez embarks on a journey that will lead her into an intricate web of crime and corruption in the start of a new Dutch trilogy which has drawn parallels with Stieg Larsson's Millennium series

Ambitious, intricate, riveting

The Dutch answer to the tsunami of Scandinavian thrillers

Walter Lucius (Author) Walter Lucius is the pseudonym of screenwriter, director and producer Walter Goverde. Walter used to be a stage director, and has produced dramas, documentaries and various television series as well. He has also founded Odyssee Producties, an audio-visual company with which he has carried out several projects for a number of Dutch government ministries. Walter lives in Amsterdam.

A young boy is found in woods outside Amsterdam. Broken and bloody, he appears to be the victim of a brutal hit-and-run. 
 
Investigative journalist Farah Hafez, on visiting the site where the boy was found, comes across a burnt-out car with two bodies inside - a sinister clue to something far darker than a simple road accident. 
 
It is just the start of a journey that will lead her into an intricate web of crime and corruption and deep into a past that Farah had sought to escape - a past that nearly killed her.

Walter Lucius

It's been compared to Stieg Larsson's Millennium series ... a compelling, engrossing read ... Walter Lucius is one to watch

Saigon, 1965. War correspondent Raylan Chapelle has a horrifying experience, one that changes his life forever. 
 
 More than thirty years later in Moscow, journalist Paul Chapelle is investigating an attack on his former lover and colleague Anya Kozlova when he stumbles across a well-guarded secret of his father. 
 
 Around the same time, in the garden of the presidential palace in Kabul, journalist Farah Hafez relives a traumatic event from her childhood, something she has spent her life trying to forget. 
 
 The past casts deep shadows over the lives of these three people who are connected in unexpected ways, by both love and war.

Walter Lucius

Praise for A Sea of Flames

Ambitious, intricate, riveting

**It's been compared to Stieg Larsson's Millennium series ... a compelling, engrossing read ... Walter Lucius is one to watch**

Disturbing, apocalyptic, gripping

Ambitious, intricate, riveting

**It's been compared to Stieg Larsson's Millennium series ... a compelling, engrossing read ... Walter Lucius is one to watch**

Disturbing, apocalyptic, gripping

Ambitious, intricate, riveting

**It's been compared to Stieg Larsson's Millennium series ... a compelling, engrossing read ... Walter Lucius is one to watch**

Disturbing, apocalyptic, gripping

Books by Walter Lucius

Series by Walter Lucius

Heartland Trilogy

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