The Vashti Seal by Ernest Dempsey
The Vashti Seal by Ernest Dempsey
English | 2026 | Mystery & Thriller
A cylinder seal small enough to fit in a coat pocket. A conspiracy big enough to swallow a decade.
When Dak Harper breaks into a Monaco antiquities dealer’s vault to recover a stolen Persian artifact, he finds a forgery instead — good enough to fool every camera in the building, and proof that someone else got there first.
The trail leads him straight into Naz Demir, a museum conservator whose mother died three weeks earlier in a fall the Istanbul police called an accident. Naz doesn’t believe it. Neither does Dak, once he sees how deep the forgery runs. What starts as a simple recovery job unravels into a laundering operation built on stolen provenance, a decade of quiet theft hiding behind respectable paperwork, and a financier who doesn’t like being told no.
With Naz’s face already circulating among his security detail and the real sale two days from closing aboard a private yacht in Monaco harbor, Dak has one shot to get the seal back, expose the men behind it, and get them both out alive. The Vashti Seal is a fast-moving Dak Harper thriller of stolen history, buried secrets, and one very short deadline.
