| 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). |
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| 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. |
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| Text on this site Copyright © 2005Lester S. Taube, all rights reserved. |
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| 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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| Peter Krimsov |