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Berlin, 1979.
When the CIA’s most valuable spy is compromised, the Agency realizes it does not have the capability to bring him to safety. If he cannot evade the dreaded East German security service, the result will be chaos and a cascade of failures throughout the Agency’s worldwide operations.
Master Sergeant Kim Becker lived through the hell of Vietnam as a member of the elite Studies and Operations Group. When he lost one of his best men in a pointless operation, he began to question his mission. Now, he is serving with an even more secretive Army Special Forces unit based in Berlin on the front line of the Cold War.
The CIA turns to Becker’s team of unconventional warfare specialists to pull their bacon out of the fire. Becker and his men must devise a plan to get him out by whatever means possible. It's a race against time to prepare and execute the plan while, alone in East Berlin, the agent must avoid his nemesis and play for time inside the hostile secret service headquarters he has betrayed.
One question remains — is the man worth the risk?
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- ISBN: 9781612009162
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- ISBN: 9781612009162
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August 10, 2020
In this solid series launch set in 1979 from military historian Stejskal (Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the U.S. Army’s Elite, 1956–1990), the CIA offers U.S. Army Master Sgt. Kim Becker, a member of the Special Forces Berlin unit, a job the agency feels it can’t accomplish on its own—the rescue of an East German asset, code-named GBOZ, who has just sent an emergency message saying he’s been compromised. GBOZ, a general in the Stasi’s foreign intelligence directorate, is one of the CIA’s “only high-level penetrations of the Warsaw Pact.” Several major spying operations would be harmed if the general was arrested and broke under interrogation. Becker and his team put together a daring plan to smuggle the general out of East Germany. Stejskal, who served 35 years with the U.S. Army Special Forces and the CIA, convincingly describes the mission’s progress, and does a good job building suspense even if the outcome is never in doubt. Fans of realistic espionage fiction will look forward to the sequel.
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