The Forgotten Painting, Gabriel Farago [book recommendations for young adults .TXT] 📗
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I have left my art collection to various galleries around the world. True works of art can never belong to just one person. We are but temporary custodians of other men’s genius, which must be shared with the world.
As for my forged ‘Little Sparrow in the Garden’, I have thought long and hard about what to do with it. I believe the right solution here is to reunite the two paintings, as both share a unique history and therefore belong together. That is why I have left my painting to Isis. I know she has great plans and will use her painting to raise money for charitable causes. If my ‘Little Sparrow in the Garden’ can in some small way contribute to this, perhaps as a curiosity, then I am content.
It has been a pleasure to get to know you, Jack. You have brought a little excitement and sunshine into an old man’s life.
Emil Fuchs
‘Come on, Jack, are you going to tell us what it says?’ asked Isis impatiently.
‘Sorry. Of course’, replied Jack, and then read the note out aloud, his voice solemn, as if he were reading out a will, which in a way of course it was. When he tried to slip the note back into the envelope, he noticed that there was something else inside. He pulled out another piece of paper, looked at it and smiled.
‘What’s that?’ asked Isis.
‘I’ll show you’, replied Jack, and held up the piece of paper. It was the receipt for the painting, reluctantly signed by Berenger Krakowski with a heavy heart in the Warsaw Ghetto on that fateful day in 1942.
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More Books by the Author
Jack Rogan Mysteries Series Starter Library
The Empress Holds the Key
The Disappearance of Anna Popov
The Hidden Genes of Professor K
Professor K: The Final Quest
The Curious Case of the Missing Head
The Lost Symphony
Jack Rogan Mysteries Series Box Set Books 1-4
So, what exactly is a STARTER LIBRARY? I hear you ask. Well, it’s a way to introduce myself and what I do, to new readers, and create interest in my writing. How? By providing little insights into my world, and the creative process involved in becoming an international thriller writer.
The Starter Library consists of four short books:
1. Letters from The Attic – a delightful collection of auto-biographical short stories;
2. The Forgotten Painting – a multi-award-winning Jack Rogan novella, providing insights into Jack Rogan's character and background;
3. The Kimberley Secret – a novella delving into Jack Rogan's earlier life;
4. The Main Characters Profile – a glossary which provides some exciting background stories and insights into the main characters featured in the series, and acts as an aid mémoire to place and follow the many characters featured in the series.
The Starter Library is available right now, and can be downloaded for FREE by following this link: Click Here to Get Started!
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In 2013, I released my first adventure thriller – The Empress Holds the Key.
The Empress Holds the KeyA disturbing, edge-of-your-seat historical mystery thriller
Jack Rogan Mysteries Book 1
Dark secrets. A holy relic. An ancient quest reignited.
Jack Rogan’s discovery of a disturbing old photograph in the ashes of a rural Australian cottage draws the journalist into a dangerous hunt with the ultimate stakes.
The tangled web of clues – including hoards of Nazi gold, hidden Swiss bank accounts, and a long-forgotten mass grave – implicate wealthy banker Sir Eric Newman and lead to a trial with shocking revelations.
A holy relic mysteriously erased from the pages of history is suddenly up for grabs to those willing to sacrifice everything to find it. Rogan and his companions must follow historical leads through ancient Egypt to the Crusades and the Knights Templar to uncover a secret that could destroy the foundations of the Catholic Church and challenge the history of Christianity itself.
Will Rogan succeed in bringing the dark mystery into the light, or will the powers desperately working against him ensure the ancient truths remain buried forever?
The Empress Holds the Key is now available on Amazon
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Encouraged by the reception of The Empress Holds the Key, I released my next thriller – The Disappearance of Anna Popov – in 2014.
The Disappearance of Anna PopovA dark, page-turning psychological thriller
Jack Rogan Mysteries Book 2
A mysterious disappearance. An outlaw biker gang. One dangerous investigation.
Journalist Jack Rogan cannot resist a good mystery. When he stumbles across a clue about the tragic disappearance of two girls from Alice Springs years earlier, he’s determined to investigate.
Joining forces with his New York literary agent, a retired Aboriginal police officer, and Cassandra, an enigmatic psychic, Rogan enters the dangerous and dark world of an outlaw bikies gang ruled by an evil and enigmatic master.
Entangled in a web of violence, superstition and fear, Rogan and his friends follow the trail of the missing girls into the remote Dreamtime-wilderness of Outback Australia – where they must face even greater threats.
Cassandra hides a secret agenda and uses her occult powers to facilitate an epic showdown where the loser faces death and oblivion.
Will Rogan succeed in finding the truth, or will the forces of evil prevail, taking even more lives with them?
The Disappearance of Anna Popov is now available on Amazon
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My next book, The Hidden Genes of Professor K, was released in 2016. Here’s a short sample to pique your interest:
The Hidden Genes of Professor KA dark, disturbing and nail-biting medical thriller
Jack Rogan Mysteries Book 3
“Outstanding Thriller” of 2017
Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards
A medical breakthrough. A greedy pharmaceutical magnate. A brutal double-murder. One tangled web of lies.
World-renowned scientist Professor K is close to a ground-breaking discovery. He’s also dying. With his last breath, he anoints Dr Alexandra Delacroix his successor and pleads with her to carry on his work.
But powerful forces will stop at nothing to possess the research, unwittingly plunging Delacroix into a treacherous world of unbridled ambition and greed.
Desperate and alone, she turns to celebrated author and journalist Jack Rogan.
Rogan must help Delacroix while also assisting famous rock star Isis in the seemingly unrelated investigation into the brutal murder of her parents.
With the support of Isis’s resourceful PA, a former police officer, a tireless campaigner for the destitute and forgotten, and a gifted boy with psychic powers, Rogan exposes a complex web of fiercely guarded secrets and heinous crimes of the past that can ruin them all and change history.
Will the dreams of a visionary scientist with the power to change the future of medicine fall into the wrong hands, or will his genius benefit mankind and prevent untold misery and suffering for generations to come?
The Hidden Genes of Professor K is now available on Amazon
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My next book, Professor K: The Final Quest, was released in October 2018. Here’s a short sample to pique your interest.
Professor K: The Final QuestAn action-packed historical medical mystery
Jack Rogan Mysteries Book 4
Gold Medal Winner in the Fiction - Thriller - Medical genre!
2019 Readers’ Favorite Annual Book Award Contest
A desperate plea from the Vatican. A kidnapped chef. An ambitious mob boss. One perilous game.
When Professor Alexandra Delacroix is called in to find a cure for the dying pope, she follows clues left by her mentor and friend, the late Professor K, which lead her on a breathtaking search through historical secrets, some of them deadly.
Her old friend Jack Rogan must step in to assist while also searching for kidnapped Top Chef Europe winner, Lorenza da Baggio.
He joins forces with his young friend and gifted psychic, Tristan, a dedicated mafia hunting prosecutor, a fearless young police officer, and an enigmatic Egyptian detective on a perilous hunt for a notorious IS terrorist.
Together, they stand off with the head of a powerful Mafia family in Florence and uncover a network of corruption and heinous crimes reaching to the very top.
Will Rogan and his friends succeed in finding Lorenza and curing the pope, or will the dark forces swirling around them prevail in their sinister plots?
Professor K: The Final Quest is now available on Amazon
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My next book, The Curious Case of the Missing Head, was released in November 2019. Here’s a short sample to pique your interest.
The Curious Case of the Missing HeadA gripping medical thriller
Jack Rogan Mysteries Book 5
Gold Medal Winner in the Fiction Thriller - Conspiracy Thrillers Category!
2020 Readers’ Favorite Annual Book Award Contest
“Outstanding Thriller/Suspense” of 2020
Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards
A headless body on a boat. An international conspiracy. Can he survive a controversial scientific discovery?
Esteemed Australian journalist Jack Rogan is on a mission to solve the disappearance of his mother in the 70s. But when a friend needs help rescuing a kidnapped world-renowned astrophysicist, he doesn’t hesitate. Struggling with more questions than answers, his investigation leads them aboard a hellish hospital ship, where instead of finding the kidnap victim, he’s confronted with a decapitated corpse.
As the search intensifies, Jack bumps up against diabolical cartels with hidden agendas. And when his research reveals dubious experiments, a criminal on death row, and a shocking revelation about his mother’s fate, he must uncover how it’s all linked.
Can Jack unravel the twisted connections and
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