Stone nearly sinks below his depths to find Czar’s lost gold. In the Siberian winter of 1921, two tons of Czarist gold secretly travel by rail to Alexander Kolchak, Supreme Commander of the White Army in Siberia fighting the Bolshevik Communist Reds. The gold never arrived. Lost forever unit… When Marta Russco, a Russian reporter and friend of Clayton Lovell Stone’s, is brutally murdered in Siberia, Stone weaves through a tightening web of political corruption, contract murder, and Putin’s secret love life in search of the martyred Tsar’s lost gold. But while Stone follows the trail of lost gold, others after that gold seek to silence Stone in the frozen depths of Lake Baikal. Clayton Lovell Stone, former FBI Art and Artifacts investigator, quits the agency in disgust to open a restaurant in Annapolis, Maryland, overlooking the Chesapeake Bay. But when he reluctantly concedes that he’s addicted to the danger and excitement of the chase, he takes on private art and antiquities investigations to keep his mind sharp and his adrenaline flowing. Each Clayton Lovel Stone action-adventure mystery thriller series takes you on a thrilling ride across a series of historical events to unravel and solve historical mysteries in a present-day, action-adventure series. "The Romanoff Conspiracy by Bruce Hutchison is a very powerful read. It opened my eyes to incredible aspects of Russian society, both past and present, of which I had little knowledge. The story was laid out in a clever and well-mapped way, switching focus between the two time frames clearly with no confusion between periods. Reading about the fall and execution of Tsar Nicolas Alexandrovich Romanov and his family, and the subsequent fate of his gold reserves, was inspirational to me in many ways. All of the characters were real and could be related to easily. The relationships built with the characters made their fates even more compelling. I had a basic understanding of what Russia had gone through in both World Wars but reading this book opened my eyes to just how bloody and conflicted Russia's history has been. An extremely worthwhile experience." Deborah Lloyd for Readers Favorite