Finder of Lost Things
A synopsis for the novel
Set against the anxiety of what many considered to be the imminent Nazi invasion of the US through New Orleans, after war was declared against Germany and Japan in 1941, psychic March Third his hired by the government to track down Nazi cells in the city.
With the heady atmosphere of the pre-gentrified Big Easy, the 65,000-word character-based who-done-it weaves the music, foods, magic and quirky characters unique to New Orleans into a mystery of money-laundering kingpins, crooked cops, blackmailers, prostitution rings, Nazi kidnappers and ruthless inside traders.
A keen observer of people with a psychic gift, except when it comes to herself, March and her initially unwilling sidekick, Chinese …show more content…
When police mistake Ling for the Japanese felon who had escaped in the Big Easy, Ling takes refuge in March’s store-front office, and as she has anticipated him and to protect himself from arrest (since the police didn’t care if one were Chinese or Japanese at that time), he becomes her bodyguard and secretary. As a child, Ling was regaled with stories about wu, Chinese witches, and while he is overly-educated, he cannot shake the stories his traditional grandmother told him. Hence, while he doesn’t want to believe in March’s gift, he cannot explain it either.
March is hired by the Army to expose Nazi cells and saboteurs in New Orleans. The city near the mouth of the Mississippi is ripe for German invasion especially after Nazi war boats freely cruise the Caribbean and their intelligence and sympathizers have taken up residence throughout Central and South America. In the process of finding the pro-terrorist groups, March is tangled in thwarting an unscrupulous police officer’s attempt to regain control of his alcoholic wife who has escaped to a safe residence for destitute women and children. At the same time, March’s services are needed by a powerful financier who “owns” most of the state’s politicians to decide if the government really requires private citizens to fund the war …show more content…
Because March’s gift is only helpful to others, she is unable to find her and it is only after March is kidnapped by two women who, while not Nazi sympathizers are working for the cells in New Orleans. They expose that the woman at Poydras House and future French President Charles de Gaulle are March’s biological parents and are using March to force de Gaulle to give up to Nazis who fear de Gaulle’s French Resistance Fighters could change the tide on the
A synopsis for the novel
Set against the anxiety of what many considered to be the imminent Nazi invasion of the US through New Orleans, after war was declared against Germany and Japan in 1941, psychic March Third his hired by the government to track down Nazi cells in the city.
With the heady atmosphere of the pre-gentrified Big Easy, the 65,000-word character-based who-done-it weaves the music, foods, magic and quirky characters unique to New Orleans into a mystery of money-laundering kingpins, crooked cops, blackmailers, prostitution rings, Nazi kidnappers and ruthless inside traders.
A keen observer of people with a psychic gift, except when it comes to herself, March and her initially unwilling sidekick, Chinese …show more content…
When police mistake Ling for the Japanese felon who had escaped in the Big Easy, Ling takes refuge in March’s store-front office, and as she has anticipated him and to protect himself from arrest (since the police didn’t care if one were Chinese or Japanese at that time), he becomes her bodyguard and secretary. As a child, Ling was regaled with stories about wu, Chinese witches, and while he is overly-educated, he cannot shake the stories his traditional grandmother told him. Hence, while he doesn’t want to believe in March’s gift, he cannot explain it either.
March is hired by the Army to expose Nazi cells and saboteurs in New Orleans. The city near the mouth of the Mississippi is ripe for German invasion especially after Nazi war boats freely cruise the Caribbean and their intelligence and sympathizers have taken up residence throughout Central and South America. In the process of finding the pro-terrorist groups, March is tangled in thwarting an unscrupulous police officer’s attempt to regain control of his alcoholic wife who has escaped to a safe residence for destitute women and children. At the same time, March’s services are needed by a powerful financier who “owns” most of the state’s politicians to decide if the government really requires private citizens to fund the war …show more content…
Because March’s gift is only helpful to others, she is unable to find her and it is only after March is kidnapped by two women who, while not Nazi sympathizers are working for the cells in New Orleans. They expose that the woman at Poydras House and future French President Charles de Gaulle are March’s biological parents and are using March to force de Gaulle to give up to Nazis who fear de Gaulle’s French Resistance Fighters could change the tide on the