The Rare Earth Exchange

Panic strikes at the highest levels of the French government when the former president is found hanging from the rafters in his home right after a terrorist attack at the airport. Is it suicide or an assassination? Former French intelligence officer John Spencer Larivière, his karate-trained, steamy Eurasian partner, Victoire, and their computer-genius sidekick, Luc, must find out what he was hiding and who is pulling the strings in a fierce international battle to control rare minerals.