The Presidium

THE PRESIDIUM is an intense, exciting thriller with a fast-paced narrative weaving between London and Vienna as journalist Josh Brody seeks the truth behind the covering-up of a murder.

When an African diplomat dies in his hotel room from a heart attack after buying the services of a call girl, the doctor conducting the autopsy is unhappy with his findings but receives pressure from above to ignore his suspicions and close the case. Unable openly to oppose his superiors, he calls freelance journalist Josh Brody and asks him quietly to investigate. Struggling to keep up his alimony payments and trying to be a decent, if absent, father, Brody needs an assignment and so agrees to help. His initial enquiries produce nothing significant, and he is about to abandon the story, when he unexpectedly discovers there has been a definite attempt at official cover-up. Sensing the possibility of a big story, the journalist begins to dig beneath the apparent facts and starts to uncover the extraordinary truth. His enquiry takes him to Vienna where he finds yet more contradictory evidence and slowly discovers a conspiracy more sinister and far reaching than he could possibly imagine. Faced with forces he cannot hope to defeat, Brody’s investigation not only puts his own life at risk but places his family and everything he loves in danger.