{"product_id":"shadows-in-the-pool-of-the-black-star-9781069985477","title":"Shadows In The Pool Of The Black Star","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShadows In The Pool Of The Black Star: A Detective Gabriel O'Malley Novel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere Sacred Geometry Meets Wartime Treason.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJanuary in Winnipeg is a sentence, not a season.\u003c\/strong\u003e At thirty-five below zero, a bitter, hunting wind strips the warmth from the limestone walls of the Manitoba Legislative Building. But inside the grand structure, the chill is trapped-along with a horrifying secret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Detective Gabriel O'Malley is summoned to the building's lower rotunda at 2:00 AM, he finds a meticulously orchestrated stage of death. Sprawled dead-center on the black marble of the \u003cstrong\u003ePool of the Black Star\u003c\/strong\u003e lies Alistair Thorne, the powerful Minister of Strategic Resources, his neck cleanly snapped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crime seems completely impossible. The white marble floor surrounding the body is pristine. There are no scuffs, no street grime, and not a single melting boot print in the winter snow. It is as if the Minister materialized directly out of the heavy, pressurized air.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo solve a murder written in the silent language of Masonic symbols and Hermetic codes, O'Malley must turn to the one person who can translate the dark architecture of the city: Olena Petrenko, a sharp-minded mystical woman from the immigrant enclaves of the North End. Together, they are drawn into a high-stakes web of psychological warfare that stretches from the elite leather chairs of the Marlborough Hotel to the gritty foundries of the Point Douglas railyards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs World War II rages overseas, Gabriel and Olena expose a staggering domestic conspiracy. Someone is altering the metrics of Canada's vital food supply, siphoning massive reserves of gold-standard wheat straight out the back door of a starving Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in a city pushed to the edge by wartime paranoia, turning on the light makes you a target. As the players in the shadow cabinet begin to systematically plummet from window ledges and disappear into the veins of the building, O'Malley realizes they aren't chasing a standard political assassin. They are hunting an invisible director who believes he walks above the physical world, a brilliant, vengeful mastermind who moves through the stone like a draft, waiting to claim his next sacrifice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor Fans of Greg Iles, James Patterson, and Historical Noir Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShadows In The Pool Of The Black Star is a magnificent, multi-layered suspense novel that seamlessly bridges commercial pacing with rich, literary historical depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sidestreet Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781069985477\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d","brand":"Robert Allan Young","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53240071979189,"sku":"9781069985477","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781069985477.jpg?v=1788975323","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/shadows-in-the-pool-of-the-black-star-9781069985477","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}