{"product_id":"the-devouring-a-billy-boyle-wwii-mystery","title":"The Devouring (A Billy Boyle WWII Mystery)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA murder in wartime Switzerland reveals Swiss complicity with the Nazis in World War II  and US Army detective Billy Boyle is called to investigate.  Europe  1944: Captain Billy Boyle and his friend Lieutenant Piotr Kaz Kazimierz are sent to neutral Switzerland to work with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)  investigating Swiss banks that are laundering looted Nazi gold. The US and Swiss governments are about to embark on diplomatic discussions regarding the Safehaven Protocols  aimed at limiting the amount of war materials exported by Switzerland to the Nazis  stemming the tide of looted gold  and preventing postwar use of Nazi wealth by war criminals. With the talks about to begin and the Gestapo ever present  the OSS wants Billy and Kaz to protect the participants  which turns out to be a very deadly task.  The plans go wrong from the beginning when Billy and Kaz crashland in France. As they make their way through occupied territory to the border  they meet Anton Lasho  a member of the Sinti ethnic group  whose family was slaughtered by the Nazis  and who is  in turn  a one-man Nazi-killing machine. Theyll need his help  because as they find once they make it across the border  Swiss banks are openly laundering gold harvested from concentration camps  and those who are profiting will do everything they can to protect their wealth and hide their dark secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946079875125,"sku":"ByrdShop_1616957735","price":30.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781616957735.jpg?v=1769922610","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-devouring-a-billy-boyle-wwii-mystery","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}