# The Luxembourg Run

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- Book: [The Luxembourg Run](https://www.bookquiver.com/stanley-ellin/the-luxembourg-run) ([The Luxembourg Run.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stanley-ellin/the-luxembourg-run.md))
- Authors: [Stanley Ellin](https://www.bookquiver.com/stanley-ellin)
- Publisher: the_murder_room
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7190-324-3
- Published: 2012-09-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

At ten, David Shaw, a silent and observant little boy already fluent in half a dozen languages, was being dragged through the capitals of Europe by a diplomat father and a beautiful scatterbrained mother. At twenty, in the midst of the troubled 1960s, David abruptly disappeared from his Ivy League college - to be reborn as Jan Van Zee, amiable Dutch drifter, making his way around Europe and working as an occasional courier for a syndicate of smugglers. At thirty he is cruelly betrayed and left for dead by the syndicate, and now lives only for revenge against an apparently all-powerful and invulnerable foe. Reverting to his true identity, David returns to America to claim his vast inheritance, and sets out to execute a consummate vengeance against each of the syndicate's three bosses