Terror in Berlin - Couverture souple

Plaisted, Edward W

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1413453953 ISBN 13 : 9781413453959

Editeur : Xlibris, Corp., 2004

Synopsis

TERROR IN BERLIN By Ed Plaisted In World War II London on December 24, 1943, a English socialite while parked in a lover's lane with an Army Air Corps captain is murdered and sodomized by an American GI in a military police uniform . When Metro police police capture him, they learn that he is Karl Krueger, and is suspected of many such crimes. Fleet Street tabloids call him the "sex beast." Prime Minister Winston Churchill reads about Krueger as German bombs continue to destroy his city. He wonders how interested members of the high-command would be in winning the war if their women and children were the sex beast's next victim. A short time later, MI6 Captain Winston Smythe is relegated the duty of training six criminals for a secret mission. Largely made up of sex offenders, including Krueger, the men are to be dropped into Berlin to rape and murder wives, girl friends and children of the elite. While four of the men begin to strike terror in Berlin, the other two, IRA man Colin MacAteer and Mafia hit man Anthony Costello, take different routes. MacAteer ingratiates himself with the s while Costello returns to what he knows best - the black market. Krueger's first victims are the wife and oldest daughter of Prussian general Siegfried Henrici. He is unaware that Henrici's nine-year-old daughter, Margit, witnesses the entire crime from under her mother's bed. Margit tells her story to Berlin police inspector Helmut Hessler and goes to live with her aunt. Soon the Red Army storms into Berlin, wreaking more havoc than the small squad of criminals, raping and murdering women at will. Margit and her aunt narrowly escape such a fate themselves when Smythe, working in Berlin on intelligence and smitten by the aunt's beauty, offers her a job and a place to live. Their relationship lasts through the post-war years until Smythe returns to London. Margit grows up and goes to England as well to earn a journalism degree from Cambridge.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

A veteran newspaperman with stops in Boston, New York, Miami and Hollywood, Fla., Ed Plaisted is a sports columnist with the Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal. He can trace his history in Berlin from 1957 when he was in the Seventh Army to today. He has been there before, during and after The Wall. His background included time as a Florida police media information officer. He received technical advice from retired Army Military Police Colonel Verner Pike of the 287th MP Co., Berlin Brigade. This is Plaisted's second novel. DISASTER PLAN was published in 2002. His third novel, THE IMPOSTOR WORE NUMBER 13, is being edited.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Xlibris, Corp.
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1413453953
• ISBN 13: 9781413453959
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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