Robert Brace

SPEED GRAPHIC is the third Lysander Dalton novel. Ex-special forces marine captain Lysander Dalton is escorted in what is little more than a polite abduction from the jungles of Central America to an aircraft carrier waiting offshore. There, occupying the admiral's chair, he finds an old enemy: Dortmund-the shadowy Washington insider for whom Dalton once ran an operation, one that ended badly. Dortmund has a new job for him: track down Hanna Moran, mistress of Senate Intelligence Committee chairman William Stolper. Moran has disappeared, along with the senator's diary, a document containing state secrets that if they got into the wrong hands would be a military and diplomatic disaster. Moran apparently regards it as her retirement plan and intends selling it to a foreign power. Dalton teams up with Sabrina Grey, an out-of-work airline pilot with a fondness for fast cars and Italian shoes. Together they track Moran through New York's demi-monde to Morocco and then Monte Carlo. The trail leads to Balthazar Kadri-wealthy arms dealer, alleged white-slave trader, and owner of the fabulous megayacht Speed Graphic. Fast-paced and action-packed, SPEED GRAPHIC is another cocktail-fueled espionage tale in the tradition of James Bond. Praise for Lysander Dalton novels: "Lysander's adventures deserve a wide readership" -Publishers Weekly "Beautifully written-proves that Robert Brace is a talent to watch" -Kyle Mills, New York Times bestselling author of Smoke Screen RobertBraceAuthor.com

A Pygmalionesque transformation, but in reverse: from woman into work of art. Freelance journalist Andromeda Chamberlain is offered an assignment: find out what became of a teenage runaway, Margot Vaughn, ten years after the girl went missing. The offer is made not by an editor but a lawyer, one whose client's identity remains confidential. The terms, although generous, come with some strange conditions, including the requirement that she wear a Tiffany collar for the duration of the assignment.Andromeda discovers that soon after leaving home Margot appeared in an obscure French art-house film, a reenactment of the Dionysian rites as depicted on the walls of the Villa dei Misteri in Pompeii, and the result was a movie as vivid as the murals that inspired them. The trail leads to LA and the Mulholland Drive mansion of the distributor, then the production offices in Paris and the Loire Valley ch teau that was used as the setting for the film.The key to uncovering what became of Margot Vaughn lies with the film's director, Orlando Gidding, notoriously demanding and megalomaniacal, unknown at the time of Margot's movie but now famous - or infamous, depending on your point of view. He is currently holed up in his lair in Venice, completing the editing of his latest movie, a film based on the Faust legend and by far the most ambitious and costly of his works. Gidding is about to enter it into competition at Cannes, and he has no intention of allowing Andromeda's discovery that he once made a graphic film with an underage star to spoil his chances.The conflict comes to a head among the ruins of Rothermore Abbey, located on a rocky crag off the coast of Scotland, and the Gothic setting of Gidding's Faust.A novel of transformation, Andromeda Graphika tells the tale of a woman's metamorphosis: part dark ritual; part depraved rite; part dreamlike revelation.www.RobertBraceAuthor.com

The Devil is to publish an apologia, something for which he needs the assistance of a sharp legal mind.Sabrina Lancaster is completing her doctorate at NYU Law School. The subject of her dissertation is the opinions of Mariano Scaglietti, a Supreme Court Justice famed as much for his acerbity as his intellect. After the Justice's sudden death the estate hires Sabrina to catalog his papers, and among them she discovers the draft of a letter, a disturbing one. The intended recipient is a wealthy recluse, Aneurin Bronaryre, whose London-based lawyer reveals that, among other idiosyncrasies, his client believes himself to be the Devil.The Devil in this case is an urbane Englishman who, although physically in his thirties, claims to have come into his current incarnation in the Seventeenth Century, and whose earliest memory as a young boy is witnessing the execution of Charles I, where Cromwell supposedly gave him a coin, the same 'Oxford Crown' currently in the Ashmolean Museum--an object he covets. He purportedly came to self-understanding through expulsion from Oxford, incarceration in the Tower, and the poetry of John Milton. His motives for having decided to defend himself in print are unclear. Sabrina is unsure whether this is some sort of total immersion technique--a writer's version of the actor's Stanislavski method--or if Bronaryre is simply delusional, but she accepts the position as the Devil's amanuensis, and so begins a journey, both real and psychological, taking her from the New World to the Old: part Grand Guignol masque; part Alice-in-Wonderland fairy tale; part fabulously psychedelic phantasmagoria.Meanwhile, the Devil tells his tale.Beneath the fiction, there is fact: we are entering a new era of editable DNA, one that will allow people to transform themselves, or to program their offspring, or to live for centuries--a change as profound as the shift from hunting to agriculture, or agriculture to industry, and something for whose consequences humanity is unprepared.Erudite, enthralling, and entirely original, FLOREAT LUX is a grandly conceived literary novel, weaving together a gripping story as Sabrina takes on the Devil with an intelligent, audacious humanism--all rendered in luminous, sophisticated prose."Brace displays such eloquence and such a firm control of pacing...artful coup de grace...an intriguing and multilayered supernatural thriller" --Kirkus Reviews"...a wild, complex novel that blurs the line between the real and the supernatural...a psychedelic trip through literature, history and art" --Blue Ink Reviews "...a cosmological search...literary and rhetorical...a theatrical celebration of what like minds can accomplish" --Foreword Clarion Reviews www.RobertBraceAuthor.com

IRON BUTTERFLY is the second Lysander Dalton book. Ex-special ops marine captain Lysander Dalton is reluctantly entangled in the web of a shadowy Washington insider, a certain Mr. Dortmund: 300 lbs. of cynicism wrapped in beautifully cut priest-cloth suits. From his customary lair at the Mayflower Club-a conveniently short walk from the White House-Dortmund dispatches Lysander on an assignment to uncover who is behind a secret offshore bank account being used for the purchase of black-market plutonium. The mission takes Dalton from the British Virgin Islands to Las Vegas and the fabulous desert estate that is the home of Xerxes Antullis, famed billionaire and recluse. Lysander must match wits with not just Antullis but also his head of security-the exotic and eye-catching Yamina Malik, lithe and mysterious, as taut as a racehorse and as temperamental, too. Lysander must unravel the mystery before Antullis becomes the world's first private citizen to go nuclear. Fast-paced and action-packed, IRON BUTTERFLY is a cocktail-fueled espionage tale in the tradition of James Bond. Now revised and reprinted in a special high-quality 6" x 9" edition-complete with original, series-specific artwork-the Lysander Dalton books are more than ever a pleasure to read. "Lysander's adventures deserve a wide readership" -Publishers Weekly "Beautifully written-proves that Robert Brace is a talent to watch"-Kyle Mills, New York Timesbestselling author of Smoke Screen RobertBraceAuthor.com

Ex-marine special operations officer Lysander Dalton becomes the target of a mysterious hit team, presumably a case of mistaken identity-Dalton left that world long ago-but he must use all of his wits and training to outrun his adversaries. He finds assistance in the form of long-legged lawyer Valentina Mariposa, a fast-driving advocate who among other bad habits keeps a Beretta strapped to her thigh. Together, they investigate while keeping a step ahead of their pursuers, and what follows is a wild ride through New York, from buttoned-up Eastside to downtown demi-monde, and the results of which will eventually lead Dalton to realize that the one thing he can never outrun is the past. Featuring beautiful women and fast cars, BLACK TIGER is the first book in the James Bond-esque Lysander Dalton series, with a more up-to-date and American-style protagonist, plus introduces the creature who will become a sort of evil "M" to Dalton's Bond, the redoubtable Mr. Dortmund. Now revised and reprinted in a special high-quality 6" x 9" edition-complete with original, series-specific artwork-the Lysander Dalton books are more than ever a pleasure to read. "Lysander's adventures deserve a wide readership" -Publishers Weekly "Beautifully written-proves that Robert Brace is a talent to watch" -Kyle Mills, New York Times bestselling author of Smoke Screen RobertBraceAuthor.com