Brouwer Sigmund - Saffire

Captivating! Emotional and impeccably researched. Saffire is a sweeping, early twentieth century novel with a colorful supporting cast and a main character who is both steadfast and strong. Brouwer weaves historical fact and storytelling with an expert penleaving the reader satisfied and, at times, in awe of the mystery and intrigue reminiscent of the classic Casablanca. I didnt put it down until I turned the final page.

K RISTY C AMBRON , award-winning author of The Ringmasters Wife

Emotionally riveting and exquisitely raw, Thief of Glory is an unforgettable tale about survival, not just of the body, but of the heart and soul, with an ending that will echo in your mind long after youve closed the book. Brouwer is a master storyteller.

S USAN M EISSNER , author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and Stars over Sunset Boulevard

In Thief of Glory Sigmund Brouwer plunges readers into the mysterious embrace of the Dutch East Indies during the convulsions of the Second World War. Few authors have such an ability to immerse an audience in the sights, sounds, smellsand horrors! Brouwer makes you live itsharing each moment of an exotic and terrifying time and place in a gripping, personal way.

B ODIE AND B ROCK T HOENE, authors of Take This Cup

Sigmund Brouwers Thief of Glory is a powerful story, richly told. Young Jeremiah Prins is a complex and fascinating hero, blessed with great gifts and challenged by choices to use them for good or evil. The details of life in a Japanese civilian prison camp are revealed in unflinching but compassionate realism, and the characters depict the human capacity for both great selfishness and great heroism. This is truly one of the best books Ive read this year.

S ARAH S UNDIN , award-winning author of On Distant Shores and In Perfect Time

Ive been a fan of Sigmund Browers books for ages, but Thief of Glory cocooned me in rich words, vivid descriptions, and true-to-life characters, making this book hard to put down. A fan of World War II, Ive read countless tales, but World War II in the Dutch Indies was new to me, fresh and heart-wrenching at the same time. A true glimpse of light amongst darkness, made even more special due to the inspiration of his own parents true story. Thief of Glory is going on my keeper shelf!

T RICIA G OYER , USA Today best-selling author of over forty books, including Chasing Mona Lisa

Thief of Glory

Broken Angel

The Canary List

Flight of Shadows

Evening Star

Silver Moon

Sun Dance

Thunder Voice

Double Helix

Blood Ties

The Weeping Chamber

The Leper

Out of the Shadows

Crown of Thorns

Lies of Saints

The Last Disciple

The Last Sacrifice

The Last Temple

Fuse of Armageddon

The Orphan King

Fortress of Mist

Martyrs Fire

Blades of Valor

S AFFIRE

This is a work of fiction. Apart from well-known people, events, and locales that figure into the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously.

The T. B. Miskimon letters are reprinted with permission from the Wichita State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives.

Trade Paperback ISBN9780307446510

ebook ISBN9780307729521

Copyright 2016 by Sigmund Brouwer

Cover design by Mark Ford

Cover photos by Per Breiehagen, Photographers Choice; Horizons WWP / TRVL / Alamo

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Published in the United States by WaterBrook, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Brouwer, Sigmund, 1959-, author.

Title: Saffire / Sigmund Brouwer.

Description: First edition. | Colorado Springs, Colorado : WaterBrook Press, 2016. | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016022492 (print) | LCCN 2016016087 (ebook) | ISBN 9780307729521 (electronic) | ISBN 9780307446510 (paperback) | ISBN 9780307729521 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919Fiction. | PresidentsUnited StatesFiction. | PanamaHistory20th centuryFiction. | Canal ZoneHistoryFiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Christian / Historical. | FICTION / Romance / Historical. | FICTION / Biographical. | GSAFD: Biographical fiction. | Historical fiction. | Love stories.

Classification: LCC PS3552.R6825 (print) | LCC PS3552.R6825 S24 2016 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016022492

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Ivan: Heres to more journeys together along the road less traveled. Thanks for sending me to Panama for this one.

January 10, 1909

Col. Geo. W Goethals,

Chairman, I.C.C.

Culebra, Canal Zone

Sir:

I have the honor to report concerning the members of the Police Department smoking while in full uniform and on actual duty.

My attention is attracted every day by this breach of discipline. For instance, yesterday, the 22nd inst. 1st-class Sergeant Carter, in command at Empire, while in full uniform with badge on, was walking up and down in front of the railroad station at that place smoking a cigar. Today, at railroad station at Gorgona, 1st-class policeman No. 42, while on active duty, was leaning against building with one hand in pocket smoking first cigarette and then a cigar.

At same time and place, Policeman No. 77, also on active duty at time, walks up with a cigarette in his mouth.

These are only a few instances. Most every day at some of the depots a policeman can be seen lounging against something or even sitting down smoking.

It is certainly not a military position to assume and if there is no rule in regard to this matter, it would look like they could be instructed along this same line.