The Golden Luger: Book 1 (Curtis Blaine: A Private Investigations and British Police Procedural Novel)

Curtis Blaine is a private detective whose quiet life is disrupted by three converging crises. Eight blonde, blue-eyed children have disappeared, and a police task force with no leads calls on Curtis to use his expertise in paedophilia and human trafficking. Simultaneously, he is hired to locate the wife of a powerful defence industry magnate, who has vanished with sensitive secrets. At home, his father—declining into dementia—becomes convinced that Nazis are pursuing him for blue diamonds he claims to have smuggled from World War II. When Curtis is shot in the head, he survives but loses his memory of the attack. In its place, he develops razor-sharp intuition, heightened senses, and an ability to perceive details others overlook. Adding to his troubles, his wife leaves him and empties his bank account. Curtis must navigate three seemingly impossible cases while barely holding his life together.