The Judge's Gold

Some fortunes are buried so deep that digging them up costs everything.

For eighty years, a fortune in Nazi gold has lain hidden in the high Andes - carried out of a collapsing Third Reich, down the ratline to Argentina, and into the silence of a country that agreed to forget.

Max Richter never wanted his family's history. Arriving from the far side of the world to bury his mother and settle her affairs, he instead inherits a dead woman's instructions, a surname he was never meant to carry, and a debt written in blood.

Because the archives have only just been opened - and what they hold turns a grieving son into a hunted man: the last keeper of a secret that powerful families have killed to protect for three generations, and the one person who can finally drag it into the light.

From a war's final winter to the estancias of modern Argentina, from a sealed mountain vault to the bloodlines that profited and the ones that paid, THE JUDGE'S GOLD is a relentless, meticulously researched thriller about money, memory, and the accounts a family refuses to close.

This story is based on real gold, and real archives.