Lawrence De Maria
4 SeriesLawrence De Maria is an acclaimed author of thriller novels, known for the Alton Rhode Mysteries, Cole Sudden CIA Thrillers, and Jake Scarne Thrillers series. Before his successful career as a novelist, he was a journalist, covering the stock market and finance for The New York Times, and began his journalism career at The Staten Island Advance. His experience in journalism has significantly influenced his fiction writing.
In Lawrence De Maria's standalone novel "Alas, Paris," a Nazi atomic bomb, forgotten since 1945, is discovered in a Louvre storeroom by an ISIS-affiliated curator over 70 years later. As the Caliphate, weakened by recent defeats, plans to detonate the device, they dispatch two experts to Paris. An American journalist, an Italian priest, and a French policewoman, initially united in efforts to restore Notre Dame after its fire, inadvertently become the bomb's guardians. Their restoration work leads them to the Louvre, where artifacts from Notre Dame are stored alongside the hidden nuclear threat. Together, this unlikely trio must thwart the terrorists' plan to destroy Paris.
