Code of the Running Cross — C.J. Carroll

In 1933 a Bauhaus artist's secretive actions in a Europe on the edge of war; in current time, two transatlantic lovers, Claudia, a Taos, New Mexico based photographer and Francois, a creative Paris businessman, get caught up in a tangled web of Nazi confiscated art, pursued by those who could be the leaders of a ruthless neo-Nazi resurgence. A page-turning, sensual mystery involving the two lovers, Code of the Running Cross is also a complex, character-driven story of men and women ensnared in the dangerous web created by the actions and beliefs, codes of malignant evil and selfless good, inherited from their Wwii era fathers.