Biography
STEPHEN ALFERS grew up in Montana. After college and graduate school he served in the U.S. Navy with the amphibious forces in Viet Nam. In the 1990’s he acted as a legal and economic advisor to a number of new former Soviet bloc countries in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa and Western companies making investments there. He witnessed the fall of the Soviet Union first hand while involved in business dealings there in the early 1990’s. Alfers lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with his wife Alison.
Synopsis
Sam Bennett lands in Kyiv in April of 1991. He’s on private business on this most recent of many trips to the Soviet Bloc throughout the Cold War. Much of that was back in Sam’s past with the CIA. Of course, those days were never completely in his past. Once in Kyiv, the beautiful and seductive Marina Petrova, Ukraine’s Minister of the Arts, contrives a meeting with Sam to enroll him and Julie Wright, a rising star in the US State Department in Marina’s plot to find and repatriate a priceless trove of stolen art recovered by the Soviet Army in Berlin at the end of World War II. The Lost Legacy follows Sam, Marina, and Julie in their race to recover the art and their battle with the corrupt oligarch Pavel Bondaruk to repatriate the art to the West.
