W. E. B. Griffin The Devil's Weapons

Informationen zum Autor W. E. B. Griffin was the author of seven bestselling series: The Corps, Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, Men at War, Honor Bound, Presidential Agent, and Clandestine Operations. He passed away in February 2019. Peter Kirsanow practices and teaches law and is an official of a federal agency. He is a former member of the National Labor Relations Board and has testified before Congress on a variety of matters, including the confirmations of five Supreme Court justices. He contributes regularly to  National Review , and his op-eds have appeared in newspapers ranging from The Wall Street Journal to The Washington Times . The author of Target Omega and Second Strike , he lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Klappentext Dick Canidy and the agents of the OSS scour war-torn Poland looking for a rocket scientist who holds the secrets to the Nazis most dangerous weapon in this new entry in W.E.B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling Men at War series. April 1940 . By terms of the Soviet Nazi Nonaggression pact, the two dictatorships divided the helpless nation of Poland. Now, the Russians are rounding up enemies of the state in their occupation zone, but one essential target slips away. Dr. Sebastian Kapsky had spent years working with Walter Riedel and Werner von Braun in the early days of rocket science, but as a man with a conscience he refused to continue when he saw the perversion of their work by the Nazis. That makes him the most knowledgeable person about German superweapons outside of Germany.  The Germans want him. The Soviets are desperate to grab him, but Wild Bill Donovan knows there's only one man who can find him in the middle of a war zone and get him out—Dick Canidy. Leseprobe Chapter 1 It was the peculiar smell that he remembered most. Not the hideous scenes, the horrific sounds, or the paralyzing cold. Not the terrified faces, or even the bodies mangled beyond recognition. It was the smell. Utterly unlike anything he'd experienced in his nearly forty-one years on Earth. It was almost a tactile sensation, damp and suffocating. The product of blood and urine and intestines; rotting flesh and pulverized organs. It seemed to have lined his nostrils, penetrated his skin. As he trod carefully through the woods, trying to orient himself while remaining alert for patrols, he recited the names of his four contacts and the three passwords assigned for each. The passwords had been given to him just once, hurriedly and in a hushed tone. He hoped he'd heard correctly. If he hadn't, he'd be dead within seconds of uttering the error. There was little risk of his forgetting the names and passwords, no matter how tense the circumstances. Dr. Sebastian Kapsky had a prodigious memory capable of retaining and retrieving the most complex equations ever generated by the human brain. Equations that could affect or alter history. Memory wasn't the issue. Rather it was whether what his brain retrieved when he spoke to the contacts was actually what was spoken to him by his seatmate, Bronislaw Haller. Katyn, Soviet Union 1430, 23 April 1940 Bronislaw Haller was a jeweler from Biaystok. He and Kapsky had been rounded up by Red Army soldiers within days of the Soviet invasion of Poland, ostensibly for "administrative processing"-at least that's what they'd gleaned from the statements from the praporshchiks taking their names before herding them onto transports. A lumbering open-bed lorry transferred them to the Ostashkov Camp in Katyn Forest, where they would be funneled into concrete bunkers along with thousands of other men-mainly soldiers and policemen-but also a fair number of municipal officials, clergy, and academics. From the moment they clambered aboard the lorry and sat next to each other, Haller had been anxious. Mo...

Product details

• Authors: Peter Kirsanow
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.10.2023
• EAN: 9780593422304
• ISBN: 978-0-593-42230-4
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 192 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Men at War
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature