In “The Art of Suicide,” Napa author Jurgen Dalluge tells the story of an assassin who tries to kill a powerful drug lord with the aid of a beautiful woman.

Dalluge will be at the Napa Downtown Farmers Market at Copia on Tuesday, 9-11 a.m., to read excerpts from “The Art of Suicide” and sign copies of his new novel.

Dalluge, who grew up in Germany, draws on his experiences on both sides of the Iron Curtain to write highly credible works on international, political and historical intrigues. Sentenced for high treason by the East German government, Dalluge spent almost two years in different state security prisons before he was released to the West. He has worked in West Africa as a power plant engineer as well as in Saudi Arabia and Thailand. He has traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macao, India, Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico, the whole of Europe, Russia, Peru, Brazil, the South Pacific and the Balkans.

“The Art of Suicide” begins when Floyd Tamura, a disillusioned Special Forces lieutenant, returns from Afghanistan where he witnessed the  destruction drugs have wreaked on people and his soldiers. He becomes a qualified assassin and takes on the assignment of eliminating a well-protected Peruvian drug lord. The task seems impossible until Ticia Velosos crosses his path and soon becomes his guide.

For more information on  Dalluge visit, www.dalluage.com

Peter M. Wright of St. Helena is the author of “The Iron Dog,” a new novel from Publish America.

The story follows the abduction of a 17-year-old high school girl and the hunt for the suspects by Barton Keene, a former San Francisco homicide detective, and his two close friends, Buddy Bigfeather, a grape grower in the California wine country, and Denton Tuggle, a local cop. Keene’s pursuit of the outlaw gang that kidnapped Tonya Charbonneau eventually includes murders, crime scene investigations, airplane crashes and autopsies. The search ends in a final confrontation between the suspects, Keene and his two companions.

Keene resides in a rundown mountaintop villa called Casa Viejo with a nomadic old tomcat he has dubbed Crazy Christian. He won’t admit it, but he is deeply in love with Marianna Dowd, a local sixth-grade schoolteacher.

Wright is a retired homicide detective. His police experience includes a stint as a police chief and 14 years as the chief law enforcement instructor at a community college. His areas of expertise are crime scene investigation, criminal law, criminal evidence, criminology, firearms and weaponless defense.