Perceval’s Shadow

The long-awaited second novel in the Perceval series by the author of the award-winning Perceval’s Secret!

Gunshots pierce the balmy summer night in Buenos Aires, and American orchestra conductor Evan Quinn falls to the pavement in Plaza Houssay. Evan wakes in the hospital to the realization that someone has tried to kill him. But who?

Clever and resourceful ten-year-old Pierre lives on the streets of Vienna, scrabbling for food and a warm place to sleep. A creepy man with golden hair and ice-blue eyes snatches him off the street with the aid of a syringe stuck into Pierre’s neck.

Evan, recovering back in Vienna, walks one day to Türkenschanz Park, where a ten-year-old boy named Pierre asks Evan for help. Pierre reminds Evan of himself at ten, and he agrees to help Pierre. It would never occur to Evan that a ten-year-old boy would hold the key to the mystery of who is trying to kill him.