Perceval's Secret

June 2048: The Americans and Chinese meet in Vienna, Austria, to prevent a global economic disaster. During the talks, American orchestra conductor Evan Quinn conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the last gig on his European tour. After the concert, he eludes his Arts Council watchdogs and defects in a Viennese police station.

Evan wants to pursue his music career in freedom, no longer under the constraints of the American Arts Council and the dictatorship of the New Economic Party. Viennese Police Inspector Klaus Leiner, suspecting Evan is an American spy, especially after CIA operative Bernie Brown takes an interest in him, orders a surveillance operation to catch and arrest him.

Evan must stay ahead of the Viennese police and Bernie Brown to protect a secret that could change the course of the American-Chinese economic talks and ignite a global war. He believes he’s left America in the past, but has he? Whom can he trust? Will he ever realize that he could be his own worst enemy or his own best chance for survival before it’s too late?

Author Biography

C. C. Yager lives in Minnesota where she writes essays, fiction, and two online blogs. She has a BA in Music and often combines her knowledge of music with her writing as in her novel, Perceval’s Secret, the first of five novels in a series. Her blog Anatomy of Perceval is at ccyager.wordpress.com, and her Substack Creo is at creobyccyager.substack.com.