Lester Taube started his military career with the horse artillery at the age of fifteen. He was a platoon leader during World War II, fighting in Iwo Jima and
Okinawa. He left the army to run a series of successful business ventures, then returned to military service as an advisor to the Turkish army, as an
intelligence officer and company commander in Korea, and as a general staff officer in intelligence and war plans during the Vietnam war.  Prior to his
retirement as a full Colonel, he lived in a small village in Austria before moving back to the United States, where he now resides in New Jersey. He is the
author of four highly-acclaimed books published throughout the world including Myer for Hire, The Cossack Cowboy, Peter Krimsov and The Grabbers
(The Diamond Boomerang).
     Peter Krimsov

An intense and suspenseful spy adventure.

Peter Krimsov, a young and highly trained secret
agent of his Kremlin's masters, is something special
in cloak-and-dagger characters.  Ruthless and
deadly, both as a lover and a man-hunter, he
accepts the world as his espionage oyster, and
in this mission to find a traitor who tried to make a
deal with the Germans investing Stalingrad, he
changes roles several times, in two hemispheres,
kills and makes love with equal cruelty, all to secure
a name that will unlock the past and bring both
discovery and retribution to a secret traitor.
For as part of the Russo -Nazi deal, a Soviet village
was bull-dozed into the steppes, and one of the
victims was Krimsov's wife and unborn child.

Her memory never ceases haunting him, and the
Kremlin's secret orders becomes a personal
vengeance.  Yet his own fate subjects him to a final
devastating irony, for Peter Krimsov learns he, too,
must pay a price for the terrible past to which he has
so long been hostage himself.

This powerfully conceived story of a man and a
mission must succeed, because failure is
inconceivable.
Text on this site Copyright © 2005Lester S. Taube, all rights reserved.
Acclaimed author, Lester Taube’s five books include his latest, Atonement for Iwo.  The Cossack Cowboy, Peter Krimsov, The Grabbers (the Diamond
Boomerang) and Myer for Hire are published in several languages and two were sold for films.


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