About "TUNNEL / The Lost Diary"
An adventure into dark secrets...
It began in an abandoned coal mine tunnel at the end of World War II...…
Bendiks (Ben) Kalninsh, a teenage boy, spends his summer afternoons spying on soldiers who gather at the old coal mine tunnel entrance. His persistence is finally rewarded one afternoon when he sees an officer and two soldiers carry two suitcases into the tunnel. When the three men depart, he enters the cold and musty darkness hoping to find stolen guns the soldiers left in there. But– he is not alone in the tunnel. What happens next will change the life of his family – though not yet and not in the country of his birth.
Years later, two older men are viciously murdered in the small community of Forks, Minnesota. The boy, now a man and an up and coming sports star, discovers his life is at risk and his father one of the murder victims.
What was in those suitcases that would suddenly put so many lives at risk? He learns of a fortune in stolen gold coins. Had his father and neighbor been killed because they were listed on the bank documents as co-owners of the contents of the suitcases? Or, because of a diary hidden in one of the suitcases?
How does the FBI know about the suitcases, the missing diary they contained? Why does neither government care about the gold? What information contained on its pages is so important/secret that men would be killed for it years later?
All of a sudden, those investigating these incidents are told to cease their activities, even threatened and blackmailed with lies. Or, they simply disappear. Is one of Hoover’'s top men in the FBI involved?
In Tunnel / The lost Diary, set primarily in the 1960s, Steven Nedelton weaves together a complex story of intrigue that will leave you at the edge of your seat, wondering..."who can I trust?"