A Promise to Die for

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Stephen Holgate has led a remarkably varied life. Besides serving as a diplomat in American embassies overseas, he has worked as a congressional staffer; acted with the national tour of an improvisational theater group; worked as a crew member of a barge on the canals of France; and lived in a tent while working as a gardener in Malibu.

His novel Tangier received the Silver Medal in Fiction from the Independent Publishers group and made Bookreaders ten-best list in the Indie Mystery/Suspense category. Madagascar met with similar critical success, receiving a coveted starred review from Publishers Weekly as well as another listing from Bookreaders among the ten best Mystery/Suspense novels of the year. Holgate lives with his wife, Felicia, in Portland, Oregon.

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Short Summary: Retired diplomat Sam Hough makes a promise to a dying friend, to find his five-year-old son. His vow leads him from the seamy neighborhoods of Paris to the City of Light's most elegant quarters, where he rekindles a long-lost love and runs for his life in a baffling maze of danger, mystery, and betrayal.