Dear reader. What if I told you that Hitler did not die in the bunker? Crack open a bottle of champagne, and let Luxe Rage rock your world.

September 2026. John Martin drives a silver Tesla through the lavender fields of Provence. Seventy-nine. Looks fifty-five. The deed in his passenger seat unlocks Château de Montclair — his mother's estate, shuttered since 1947.

The old caretaker Henri Bisset is waiting at the gate with a pipe and a story. They drink Domaine Leroy Musigny in a wine cellar sealed under argon for ninety years. Bisset moves a shelf, revealing a vault. Inside: a leather ledger in his father's handwriting.

June 1937. Two American brothers in a black Alfa Romeo — Bruce Martin, raven-haired, cobalt-eyed, son of a German master jeweler in Boston — and his brother Theo, reckless, a bottle of champagne in one hand and the wheel in the other. A summer storm forces them into a vineyard called Château de Montclair.

That is where Bruce meets Camilla Élise de Montfort. Champagne-blonde. Smoke-grey eyes. A French Catholic bloodline that traces to Simon de Montfort and the Habsburgs. A girl who tells him the time is always right for champagne.

Two years later, they are married, working out of Löwenstein & Co., Juwelenhaus, Kurfürstendamm 144, Berlin. They sell diamonds to Eva Braun. Pervitin to Hitler's personal physician. They photograph Goebbels' invasion plan for Czechoslovakia and sell it to a man named Ian Fleming at White's Club for 250,000 pounds.

Code name: Diamond Falcon.

The Adlon Christmas Ball, 1938. Camilla in midnight Lucien Lelong satin. A rivière of forty ice-blue diamonds at her throat. By midnight, Bruce has the Führer's invasion plan in his pocket. By spring, he has the Führer's mistress in his bed.

The Eagle's Nest. Bruce walks naked out of the shower and finds Eva Braun waiting on the bed with a bottle of Jameson and a Mauser.

By 1943, Berlin is rotting. Ian Fleming sends a telex. Get out.

The Allied bombing of Kiel. A Chris-Craft speedboat under a tarp at the marina. Bruce and Camilla outrun a German patrol cruiser in the Baltic by having Camilla flash her bra at the crew. Bruce machine-guns them while they are still laughing.

New York, Christmas 1945. Charlie Parker rips through Cherokee with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis at Minton's. Billie Holiday is at the next table. Detroit Red sells them weed. He is twenty. He has not changed his name yet.

In 1948, James Jesus Angleton sent a coded telegram. Old uniforms nearby. A price on your head.

Bruce and Camilla leave their newborn son with Theo Martin in New York and board the night train south from Paris.

Two Corsican hitmen with eyepatches and Capone faces are watching them across the first-class car.

By dawn, they are running down a Spanish coastal cliff in a black Talbot-Lago that goes over the edge into shark waters.

By February, they are in Patagonia. At a lake nobody is supposed to know about. Hunting a man the world believes is dead.

Adolf Hitler did not die in the bunker.

The ledger ends there.

In the morning, John Martin gets on a plane.

Hitler. Eva Braun. Goebbels. Himmler. Heydrich. Bormann. Morell. Magda Goebbels. Riefenstahl. Ian Fleming. Hemingway. Angleton. Charlie Parker. Dizzy Gillespie. Miles Davis. Billie Holiday. Detroit Red.

Written in the muscular tradition of Forsyth, Smith, Furst, and Follett — and pushed past the line where any of them ever dared go.

For readers of The Day of the Jackal, Eye of the Needle, and Fatherland.

Book 4 of The Feeder Series. Reads as the chronological start of the Martin dynasty saga.

Power. Blood. Desire. The deep state isn't a theory. It's a bloodline.

The Luxe Rage audiobook is exclusively from the author's website. Pour something cold. Press play. Try not to flinch.