William Burton McCormick - Lenin's Harem (Knox Robinson Publishing) December 6, 2012 www.leninsharem.com
Amidst the ashes of the failed workers’ rebellions of 1905, Latvian aristocrat Wiktor Rooks finds that he has lost everything: home and heritage, his life's very purpose. Coerced into the Russian Army, Wiktor is soon swept up into the turbulent years of the Great War and Bolshevik Revolution. In the service of his enemies, he finds himself torn between the noble classes of his birth and his new communist masters, between calls for freedom on Baltic shores and waves of oppression radiating from Moscow's center.
By a twist of fate, he becomes a member of the elite Red Riflemen of the Revolution; a regiment nicknamed “Lenin’s Harem” for their absolute loyalty to the cause. Wiktor adapts to his situation by hiding his aristocratic past. He finds friendship amongst the soldiers and love with a communist girl. When the wars end, he returns to his homeland a different man. But betrayals await in Riga and Stalin's soldiers are soon knocking on the midnight door...
Set in Russia and Latvia between 1905 and 1941, Lenin’s Harem is a story of nationhood, brotherhood and love throughout the most turbulent years of the twentieth century. The novel explores identity in a time of changing loyalties, and the search for a just struggle when all causes are tainted by bloodshed and betrayal
Mark Pryor - The Bookseller (Seventh Street Books) December 2012 www.markpryorbooks.com
Max—an elderly Paris bookstall owner—is
abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US
embassy, looks on helplessly, powerless to do anything to stop the kidnapper.
Marston
launches a search, enlisting the help of semiretired CIA agent Tom Green. Their
investigation reveals that Max was a Holocaust survivor and later became a Nazi
hunter. Is his disappearance somehow tied to his grim history, or even to the
mysterious old books he sold?
On the
streets of Paris, tensions are rising as rival drug gangs engage in violent
turf wars. Before long, other booksellers start to disappear, their bodies
found floating in the Seine. Though the police are not interested in his
opinion, Marston is convinced the hostilities have something to do with the
murders of these bouquinistes.
Then he
himself becomes a target of the unknown assassins.
With Tom by his side, Marston finally puts the pieces of the puzzle together, connecting the past with the present and leading the two men, quite literally, to the enemy's lair.
With Tom by his side, Marston finally puts the pieces of the puzzle together, connecting the past with the present and leading the two men, quite literally, to the enemy's lair.
Just as the
killer intended.
Erec Stebbins - The Ragnarok Conspiracy (Seventh Street Books)
http://www.erecstebbins.com/
The
world's most dangerous terrorist organization may well be located in our own
backyard.
As Muslims around the world are being targeted in a series of devastating attacks, Agent John Savas is drawn into a web of international intrigue. He must put aside his personal pain and work with a man who symbolizes all he has come to hate. Both are drawn into a race against time to prevent a plot so terrible that it could shatter civilization itself.
In a thriller that spans the globe in an ever-widening arc of intrigue, violence, and personal conflict, the stability of the world hangs in the balance. Only by transcending his own devastating loss can Savas hope to prevent the ultimate calamity unleashed by the Ragnarök conspiracy.
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