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The Fuhrer's Reserve: A Novel of the FBI
One after another, aged Nazis are being murdered in Europe, South America, and the United States. Enter FBI Special Agent Taz Fallon, who soon discovers the killings aren't the work of a vigilante bent on revenge for the Holocaust. Instead, they turn out to be part of an elaborate plot to put a new generation of Nazis into power. And the key to the entire scheme is a huge cache of paintings looted by Hitler from Jewish families during the Second World War. In The Führer's Reserve, Paul Lindsay weaves a tale of high stakes art smuggling, vicious homicides, and brilliant investigative prowess. Are Hitler's stolen masterpieces really hidden somewhere in Illinois?Could a secret Nazi sympathizer, known only as der Kurator, actually sell these works of art to finance a new Fascist movement? Can agent Taz Fallon, working with a beautiful young art historian, risk destroying Rembrandts, Titians, Vermeers, and countless other treasures to stop a Nazi coup?With a storyline as authentic as today's headlines, Lindsay -- a former, highly decorated FBI agent himself -- provides page-turning thrills and captivating insights into the way real world sleuths solve unimaginable crimes.It's no wonder that USA Today has written of Paul Lindsay, "Step aside, John Grisham!"
384 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2000
About the author
Paul Lindsay
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Paul Lindsay graduated from MacMurray College in 1968 and served a tour of duty in Vietnam as a Marine Corps infantry officer. He later joined the FBI and worked in the Detroit office for twenty years. He is the author of five other novels -- Freedom to Kill; Code Name: Gentkill; Witness to the Truth; The Fuehrer's Reserve; and Traps. He lives in Rye, New Hampshire.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Aka Noah Boyd.
Paul Lindsay graduated from MacMurray College in 1968 and served a tour of duty in Vietnam as a Marine Corps infantry officer. He later joined the FBI and worked in the Detroit office for twenty years. He is the author of five other novels -- Freedom to Kill; Code Name: Gentkill; Witness to the Truth; The Fuehrer's Reserve; and Traps. He lives in Rye, New Hampshire.
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July 10, 2024
This is probably the only way I'd like a novel of the fbi. Add enough ww2 elements
November 6, 2012
The Führer's Reserve by Paul Lindsay is simply a great mystery, detective who-done-it read. It has lots of murder in it, but there isn't much mystery as to who did it, so it can't be termed a 'murder mystery.' Reserve started out as a bedtime read, but soon I could not put it down. From the first page to the last, without a single break, this book is action-packed. While there is romance, there are no sloppy sex scenes thrown in for those readers who cannot get enough for free from the Internet.
Based in the fact that the WWII machine of Hitler, after sending away many wealthy although still 'inferior', Jews to die in the gas chambers by the millions, then stole and secreted away many of their extremely valuable works of art. (And though this may sound crass, it is fortunate for us today that the Nazis did cherish these paintings and sculptures and such, since in too many past wars, the conqueror--often Muslim--destroyed all the art of the vanquished.)
In Reserve we meet an FBI agent who occasionally colors outside the lines, a seductive beauty named Sivia, who works to recover stolen WWII art, pitted against a team of ruthless gunmen hired by 21st Century Nazis to recover the huge cache of 80 plus masterpieces known as the 'Führer's Reserve,' so that their future auction might generate the income needed to fund an arisen Nazi Party.
Decker, the head gunman, studies and gains such an appreciation for art, you know that author Paul Lindsay must be the 'source' of this appreciation, as a few of the re-discovered paintings are described by Decker in such a manner that the reader wants to stop reading and scour the Internet for a visual of the mentioned masterpiece.
Much like the movies National Treasure and the "Indiana Jones" series, Reserve is a find-and-follow-the-clues, track 'em down adventure, however, involving many more twists, turns, cold blooded murders, double-crosses with occasional bits of the German language thrown in.
Reserve is a well-written, researched and intricately plotted book that I think anyone, especially those familiar with World War Two, will find exciting and enjoyable.
Based in the fact that the WWII machine of Hitler, after sending away many wealthy although still 'inferior', Jews to die in the gas chambers by the millions, then stole and secreted away many of their extremely valuable works of art. (And though this may sound crass, it is fortunate for us today that the Nazis did cherish these paintings and sculptures and such, since in too many past wars, the conqueror--often Muslim--destroyed all the art of the vanquished.)
In Reserve we meet an FBI agent who occasionally colors outside the lines, a seductive beauty named Sivia, who works to recover stolen WWII art, pitted against a team of ruthless gunmen hired by 21st Century Nazis to recover the huge cache of 80 plus masterpieces known as the 'Führer's Reserve,' so that their future auction might generate the income needed to fund an arisen Nazi Party.
Decker, the head gunman, studies and gains such an appreciation for art, you know that author Paul Lindsay must be the 'source' of this appreciation, as a few of the re-discovered paintings are described by Decker in such a manner that the reader wants to stop reading and scour the Internet for a visual of the mentioned masterpiece.
Much like the movies National Treasure and the "Indiana Jones" series, Reserve is a find-and-follow-the-clues, track 'em down adventure, however, involving many more twists, turns, cold blooded murders, double-crosses with occasional bits of the German language thrown in.
Reserve is a well-written, researched and intricately plotted book that I think anyone, especially those familiar with World War Two, will find exciting and enjoyable.
December 10, 2012
Like, "Monument Men" & "Woman in Gold", an "on-the-edge" FBI agent and a beautiful Jewess, working for an international NGO, are on the hunt for the art treasures of Hermann Goering hidden in the USA...also on the hunt are Neo-Nazis who hope to use the treasure for another "Reich"...plenty of twists and turns...decent read!!!
May 17, 2014
FBI agent Taz Fallon teams up with a beautiful, Jewish art historian to track a cache of paintings alleged to be Nazi loot from World War II.
A solid police procedural. Exciting read, interesting topic. Lindsay was an FBI agent in Cleveland. Highly recommend.
October 25, 2009
Not bad. Well written story of FBI agents hunting Nazi art.
May 10, 2010
Great twist, liked the humor too
November 12, 2010
Amazing start, but mediocre conclusion.
July 12, 2012
This was Paul's third novel and I liked. Good plot and held my interest. I love books about the FBI and Nazi's.
April 18, 2013
This book was ok, it had a good plot but it had cliches.
May 2, 2013
A lot of fun to read and wonder what if
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January 14, 2017I enjoyed the characters quite a bit. I wouldn't mind seeing another novel with Fallon, Sivia and Dr. Zjorn in it chasing after other stolen artifacts and what not
July 31, 2008
So far, my favorite Paul Lindsay. and I really liked code name gentkill.
April 15, 2017
I loved the premise, and the characters really grabbed me early on. But as the story moved on it became one of improbable and conveinient circumstances, along with the villan , naturally, explaining how oh so many events took place to put them in an advantageous position. Why they don't eliminate our heroes insteadof long-windedly telling them how they did it reminds me of Austin Powers! WhenDr Evil's son says "why don't you jjust kill Powers instead of putting him in some contraption where, of course, he'll get away!?! It faded down the stretch.
April 20, 2017
This is the first book I’ve read by Paul Lindsay. Even though it was on the new book shelf at my library, it was published in 2000 – not new at all, but very good and timeless. As I was looking to see what else Lindsay had written, I was saddened to see that he had died in 2011.
This novel was well written with little fluff and very few objectionable items. It concerned invaluable artwork stolen from Jews by the Nazis during WWII. On the one hand there was our femme fatale who was trying to find and return this artwork to the rightful owners (or heirs) and on the other hand you had the neo-nazis who were trying to finance their resurgence by selling (undercover) billions of dollars worth of priceless art. In the middle is our hero, FBI Agent Taz Fallon. Fallon is trying to go by the books, but keeps slipping into gray areas as he works with the Jews (ie. the femme fatale) and against the neo-nazis.
It was a good, tight plot with good twists and turns and a satisfying ending.
It was interesting to read a book from 2000 – the year before our lives were changed forever by 9/11. It was also the year that GPS’s were made available to the general public. Also of course, common use of cell phones was in its infancy – and Caller ID was yet to come.
This novel was well written with little fluff and very few objectionable items. It concerned invaluable artwork stolen from Jews by the Nazis during WWII. On the one hand there was our femme fatale who was trying to find and return this artwork to the rightful owners (or heirs) and on the other hand you had the neo-nazis who were trying to finance their resurgence by selling (undercover) billions of dollars worth of priceless art. In the middle is our hero, FBI Agent Taz Fallon. Fallon is trying to go by the books, but keeps slipping into gray areas as he works with the Jews (ie. the femme fatale) and against the neo-nazis.
It was a good, tight plot with good twists and turns and a satisfying ending.
It was interesting to read a book from 2000 – the year before our lives were changed forever by 9/11. It was also the year that GPS’s were made available to the general public. Also of course, common use of cell phones was in its infancy – and Caller ID was yet to come.
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