Greg Loomis, The Pegasus Secret

Greg Loomis, The Pegasus Secret - In Paris, a bomb exploded in the apartment building where Janet, her adopted son and her hostess were staying. Langford Reilly, former CIA agent, goes to Paris to bring home the remains, but while there learns that Janet bought a painting. After Lang leaves the out of the way store, someone tries to knife him. He soon discovers that Janet shipped the painting to a store to be framed. He picks up the painting, an appraisal and a Polaroid of the painting to take home with him.

Someone removes all three objects and bombs the gallery where the painting was framed. An assailant enters Lang's' home to kill him but he is prepared. Lang finds out that an expert on the painting is in Vatican City so he travels there and learns that the painting is a map and the organization who is after him doesn't want him to find out what is hidden at the designated location. The organization commits another homicide, but frames Lang as the killer. With the help of friends from his CIA days, the former agent remains determined to find out why he is stalked, his sibling murdered and what secret this rich and powerful organization is hiding.

Fans of Dan Brown's THE DA VINCI CODE are going to love THE PEGASUS SECRET, an ecclesiastical thriller that is so action-packed that readers will feel they are on a fast-moving rocket ship. The hero is in danger from the time he receives the painting but he is determined to find out why his sister was killed and how the painting leads to her death. Greg Loomis writes an amazing thriller with more twists and turns than a maze.

Leisure, May 2005, $6.99 pp.

ISBN 0843955309

Harriet Klausner