Blood of Eagles Author:Dean Ing Beginning on an Albanian mountainside in 1944 when a partisan band ambushes a Nazi convoy and finds a cache of gold, which they hide from a rival group of Albanian Communists, the narrative flashes forward to present-day California where teenager Mark Paladino is nearly kidnapped by a carload of strangers. He finds safety in the auto shop of his... more » high school teacher, Stu Ransome, and before long Ransome and young Paladino are involved in a deadly stalking match with Chinese and Russian agents hot on their trail. Somehow, they know, these events are connected to Mark's mysterious father, Justin, whose strange past has linked him to high-level espionage.« less