''The Dark Goddess'' is a novel by

French American French Americans or Franco-Americans (french: Franco-Américains), are citizens or nationals of the United States who identify themselves with having full or partial French or French-Canadian heritage, ethnicity and/or ancestral ties. They ...

novelist Marvin H. Albert.

Plot introduction

Archaeologist Moira Rhalles is kidnapped by the

KGB The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...

while she is on a dig in France. Her historian husband and her ex-boyfriend team up to try to rescue her.

Explanation of the novel's title

The title refers to the dark earth-mother goddess, of which a paleolithic statuette was made. 1978 American novels American thriller novels Novels set in France Doubleday (publisher) books {{1970s-thriller-novel-stub