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Escape in the Rain: The Price of Silence
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 5 2026
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A craftsman of precision. An easy ten-thousand-euro job. A secret weighing half a kilo that is worth a death sentence.
Danilo Lanzi is a simple man: fifty years old, owner of a struggling machine shop in the fog-bound Italian province of Cremona, and a father with a family to support. When the economic crisis bites and the banks close their taps, a message on a freelance website seems like salvation: a quick consultation in Bordeaux, expenses paid, and an immediate cash payout.
The client is Mr. Antonio, a distinguished and wealthy elderly gentleman. But as soon as Danilo lands in France, he realizes this is no ordinary job. The villa is a fortress, isolated among winter vineyards, surrounded by armed guards and unsettling figures with eyes of ice.
What Danilo has been hired to build is not a replacement part for a tractor. It is a critical component for a weapon destined to change the course of international history.
Trapped in a gilded cage, watched by professional killers, and battling a screaming conscience, Danilo must rely on the only weapon he possesses: his mechanical ingenuity. From a desperate escape through mud-slicked vineyards to a return to an Italy that no longer feels like a sanctuary, Danilo will discover that accepting that money comes at a cost far higher than he ever imagined.
A claustrophobic technical thriller that runs on a razor's edge, from 5-axis machining centers to the darkest shadows of the Russian secret service.
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