Stanley Larson

The Lochinvar Club Stanley Larson

An international thriller that spans 3 continents, taking readers from Washington DC to Switzerland to the Panama Canal, then to North Korea and back to Pleasanton, California. In 1902, the wealthiest man on the planet funded a SECRET international organization with powerful connections in Washington DC. Two immigrant sisters from Maggia Valle Switzerland are found destitute on the streets of New York City and soon become the focus of the Roosevelt White House. Over a hundred years later, the Lochinvar Club is has more reach and more power than ever. Will McGuire is an emerging prep basketball player in the northern California town of Pleasanton. Park Gun is a rising national Judo hero in North Korea. When the two sixteen year-old athletes cross-paths it ignites an international incident that pits the ruthless dictatorship of Kim Jong-un against an unlikely adversary in a thrilling rescue attempt that crisscrosses China and tests the resolve of the Lochinvar Club.