Detective Maier has a new case. This time it is a cold case: investigating the death of Julia Rendel&#39;s father, an East German culture attach&eacute; who was killed near a fabled CIA airbase in central Laos in 1976.<br /><br />But before the detective can set off, his client is kidnapped right out of his arms. Maier follows Julia&#39;s trail to the Laotian capital Vientiane, where he learns different parties, including his missing client, are searching for a legendary CIA file crammed with Cold War secrets.<br /><br />The real prize, however, is the file&#39;s author: someone codenamed Weltmeister, a former US and Vietnamese spy and assassin no one has seen for a quarter century. Racing against time, Maier needs to dig deep into the past - including his own - in order to make sense of the present.<br /><br />The second book in Tom Vater&#39;s Detective Maier Mysteries series, The Man With The Golden Mind is an action-packed thriller with plenty of sex, drugs, assassinations and double-crosses.<br /><br /><b>This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.</b>