Walter Thompson and his partner, the jetsetting owners of an international auction house, which serves the collecting needs of the rich and powerful, are at the center of danger and intrigue. Through Thompson's ties to the secret Societe de Belgique, the outspoken, crusading, egalitarian battles right-wing conservatism and hypocrisy in American politics; becoming the catalyst for conspiracy, espionage and murder. When Thompson himself is targeted for death, his chief of security, Tom Sheppard, a former FBI agent, is determined to figure out who's behind the crimes and why. Sheppard's search for answers exposes an intertwined web of deceit, corruption and subterfuge-a journey through cosmopolitan New York, London and Washington, DC to the mainstream America of Virginia and northwestern Ohio. Beyond the mysteries of this action thriller, characters struggle to understand their life's destiny, which through juxtaposed circumstances seems out of their control. This fast-paced novel keeps the reader hanging and engaged until the very end, when through a twisted truth specifics and false assumptions of The Belgium Conundrum are revealed."