When the WWII is nearing its end, Anton Gleichner – who works for the Nazi organization Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg decommissioning valuables from Jewish citizens in France – realizes that Germany is bound to lose the war.

He decides to steal a fortune in gold objects, escape the Nazi's inevitable defeat in Europe and start a new life in South America.There, a chance meeting with an American by the name of Charles Munroe leads to a lucrative business arrangement between the two.

Four decades later, the freelance journalist Dusty Dawes gets an assignment for The National Geographic Magazine to investigate the cocaine trade between Colombia to the USA.

The task takes him across mountains on horseback, by riverboat to the production facilities and later, by coincidence, to one of the top leaders who launders the Cartagena Cartel’s proceeds.

Incorporated in the main story are historical flashbacks that created the South America that Dusty encountered in 1982: the ritual that created the Eldorado myth, them dwellers in the Amazon rainforest and the slave trade originating in Africa.

This is the first book in the illustrated thriller trilogy The Circles of Gold. 

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