Bill Vidal

In this exhilarating international thriller, Thomas Clayton's father leaves in his will the contents of a numbered Swiss bank account containing £50 million. It turns out that Tom's father was being used as a "ghost" to launder money for the biggest cocaine baron in Medellin.

A fiendishly plotted international thriller about missing Spanish gold. From the author of The Clayton Account, it switches between 1936 and 2004.

In this exhilarating international thriller, Thomas Clayton''s father leaves in his will the contents of a numbered Swiss bank account containing 50 million. It turns out that Tom''s father was being used as a "ghost" to launder money for the biggest cocaine baron in Medellin.

Thomas Clayton is a City trader working the markets in Londons Square Mile and living, financially, on borrowed time. But when he returns home to New York for his fathers funeral to discover he has been left nearly $50 million in a numbered Swiss bank account, hes at a complete loss to explain how his professor father could have come by such a sum. Whatever the explanation, the mysterious windfall has come at exactly the right time.So he travels to Zurich, secures the funds, and tells his wife to make an offer on her dream country mansion. What Tom doesnt know yet is that his father was being used as a ghost to clean up dirty money by a New York laundry operation: really the money belongs to Carlos Morales, Medellins biggest cocaine baron.Toms actions in Europe spark a murderous turf war in the Americas between the cartels of Medellin and Cali, involving a cast of bent lawyers, cops, undercover DEA - and transatlantic assassins wholl stop at nothing or no one to make Tom pay his debt...

1936. As General Francos Nationalists march on Madrid in the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government authorises the evacuation of the countrys gold reserves. 7900 crates of gold leave Cartagena for Russia - but only 7800 arrive. The hundred missing boxes, if found today, would be worth over $200 million...2004. Jack Hadley, a British visiting professor at the University of Salamanca, his girlfriend Mercedes and the enigmatic civil servant Rosa Uribe have been arrested on drug charges in the wake of an evenings excessive partying. Hadley is facing prison, disgrace and possibly the end of his career, until the Spanish Secret Service offer him a surprising reprieve: Hadley is about to visit Cuba to interview the reclusive revolutionary Jesus Florin - better known as the The Aztec. The Spanish intelligence chief believes Florin knows the location of the missing gold and coerces Hadley into his service. Switching between Florins past and 2004, The Aztec is a gripping international thriller full of double agents and deception, where no-one seems to be sure whos pulling the strings or why.

En julio de 1936, el gobierno republicano decidió evacuar las reservas de oro españolas. Siete mil novecientas cajas llenas de oro partieron desde Cartagena rumbo a Odessa, pero sólo llegaron a destino 7.800. Asi empezo el misterio del Oro de Moscu. En 2004, un academico britanico se propone escribir la biografia de El Azteca, un brigadista mexicano que intervino en la operacion. Al hacerlo, se ve inmerso en una conspiracion de primer orden. El CNI, el ICEX y Raul Castro lo persiguen hasta lograr implicarlo en el golpe de estado de Severo Moto. España, America Latina, Guinea Ecuatorial un nuevo eje sirve de marco a esta trepidante novela de accion en la que, mas que nunca, nada es lo que parece.