S21 Ep65: Skyring Water: Cold War Spies & Family Ties w/ Beau L'Amour

S21 Ep65: Skyring Water: Cold War Spies & Family Ties w/ Beau L'Amour

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June 2, 2026 · 2h 42m · Season 21 · Episode 65

About this episode

The episode discusses Cold War espionage and family connections through the lens of Beau L'Amour's novel.

True Crime Tuesday presents: Skyring Water: Cold War Spies & Family Ties with Researcher/Author Beau L'Amour! Louis and Beau L’Amour present a collaboration across time, an epic novel of Cold War suspense, as a pair of unlikely heroes, a woman without a name, and the undefeated agents of the Third Reich find themselves locked in a deadly race to control the greatest secret of the 20th century. 1961. The world is on the brink of nuclear war. Walls are dividing East and West. Empires are crumbling. And in Barcelona, chaos is unleashed when a rogue officer of the East German STASI attempts to blackmail a pair of struggling arms dealers. The secret—30 tons of stolen gold hidden in an icebound wilderness at the end of the world. Mike Fowler is a former Navy salvage diver and OSS assassin. Anton Voss is an expatriate German scientist whose past grows darker the closer anyone looks. Once they might have been enemies, yet the two share an inseparable bond; they have saved one another's lives. But all of that is put at risk when Mike discovers Anton standing over a midnight visitor with a gun in his hand. Now they're on the run, allied with gangsters, pursued by the CIA, Israeli…

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Host: Louis

Guest: Beau L'Amour

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Organizations: CIA, Israeli intelligence, STASI

Books & works: Skyring Water, Cold War, Third Reich

Places: Barcelona, Marseilles, Caracas, Argentine Patagonia

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