John Pearce lives in Paris part of each year, gathering information for the novels in his Eddie Grant and Sandi Brennan novels. His first, Treasure of Saint-Lazare, was the top historical mystery in the Readers' Favorite writing contest in the year it was published.He is a former journalist whose reporting in Europe sparked a lifelong fascination with Cold War espionage and the hidden power struggles that survived the fall of the Soviet Union. A former contributor to the International Herald Tri