THE DELICATE BALANCE OF WORLD POWER IS AT STAKE UNLESS CHICAGO BUSINESSMAN, DAVID OLEN, CAN UNRAVEL THE CONSEQUENCES OF A DECADES-OLD PACT NEW THRILLER FROM REAL ESTATE EXECUTIVE EUGENE GOLUB HAS READERS ASKING, "IS IT TRUE?"
Everything's a deal – in business, in politics, and even in religion. The new thriller PROTOKOL by Eugene Golub and Quinton Skinner challenges our assumptions about how the Soviet's world map was drawn and reinforces how world leaders collude to make things happen.
Nearly thirty years ago David Olen, a successful Chicago real estate developer, was forced by the CIA to take part in an international conspiracy. As a CIA operative, he worked with the KGB, and government officials in Russia, to ultimately influence the selection of a Pope. His cover – he was in Eastern Europe and Russia to develop property. Nobody expected this pact, or anyone's involvement in it, to be revealed. And Olen always regretted the part he played, and the fact that he had no choice but to participate.
But in PROTOKOL, greed and power exert their influence. So in the late 1990s, when these past indiscretions come to light, a more mature David Olen is once again forced to leave his home to return to Warsaw, Moscow, and Rome to confront the consequences of his past, and to save his life. The delicate balance of world power is at stake.
The race against time, the revelations of what was done and what might transpire in the future, the behind-the-scenes peak into Russian politics, CIA manipulations, influence lobbying in the Vatican, and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe all combine to create a thriller that moves at heart-stopping speed.
Eugene Golub, chairman of the Chicago-based real estate development firm Golub & Company, draws on his first-hand experiences developing properties in Eastern Europe and Russia, to create a story that is not only compelling, but that has more than one reader wondering, "Is it true?"
