Pre-salt Mission 2025

An espionage and investigation thriller, this is a surprising debut novel from an author who masterfully masters the resources to keep the reader glued to every page. London, the second decade of the 21st century. Rodolfo Ruppel, a Brazilian Navy officer, is sent to the British capital on a secret mission under the pretext of attending an event organized by a company specializing in naval defense. He travels with his wife, Carla, and intends to seize the opportunity to try to reinvent his already strained marriage. He is told little about the mission, but he knows he will have to recapture stolen information about the ambitious Pre-Salt 2025 Project, a major technological achievement of the Brazilian Navy: a hybrid, semi-diesel, semi-nuclear submarine—the weapon capable of elevating the country to the global military elite—whose main objective is the defense of the Brazilian pre-salt layer. The instructions, encrypted in Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers, involve Ruppel in a web of alliances and betrayals, an intricate plot in which he meets the mysterious and seductive naval engineer Victoria Borges, who will lead him to a world of pleasure and danger hitherto unknown.