Berlin Mesa: A Hitler's Loki Novel

NEW MEXICO, 1943. AN ESCAPED NAZI SPY. A KIDNAPPED WAR BRIDE. A FUGITIVE COWBOY & THE FBI AGENT AFTER HIM: ALL ON A DEADLY ROAD TO LOS ALAMOS. "Berlin Mesa is an exquisite gem—a truly original story, superbly told. An authentic tour de force!" Payne Harrison, New York Times Bestselling Author of Storming Intrepid In the middle of a desert, a POW camp harbors a deadly secret. A sleeper agent embedded among combat prisoners receives orders activating him to a deadly mission beyond the wire. Get ready for a WWII thriller unlike any you have ever read. For this prison is Camp Santa Rosa, New Mexico. And this prisoner, Colonel Jurgen von Hofmann, is an SS intelligence officer attached to Hitler's most daring plan against the United States. "An utterly distinctive voice in spy fiction. Nobody captures the halls of mirrors and dead ends, the complexity of personal relationships and foreign affairs, the debilitations, futility, heartbreak, and betrayals of espionage, quite like Beckner." - I.S. Berry, Edgar Award Winning Author of The Peacock and the Sparrow, A New Yorker & NPR Best Book of the Year With Berlin Mesa, novelist Michael Frost Beckner breaks from his Spy Game series to deliver a strikingly original WWII thriller set on the knife-edge of an unexplored curl of history—the escape of German POWs into the heart of the American West. "Spy thriller? Western adventure? Military action? Yes, all of the above. [Berlin Mesa] is straight, old-school, thriller storytelling that evokes the writing of the masters in all three genres, but with a flair that is Beckner's alone." James Stejskal, author of the Snake Eater Chronicles, former CIA and Green Beret "It's Cormac McCarthy cowboys versus Ken Follett Nazi spies with a Forbidden Romance at its heart—what's not to love? Five Stars/Highly Recommended!" Kara W, NetGalley ARC Reader A land as wild and savage as its past, while the US Army, the FBI, and the OSS clash over the glory of capturing the escaped spy, von Hofmann raids the Triple H Ranch. There, he and his men run headlong into a rancher's vendetta against the man he once put away for the rape of his daughter—the strong-willed war bride Virginia Hendricks. A story filled with intrigue and violence, romance and redemption, where dark passions are cloaked by secret agendas, only a six-gun will hold against Hitler's ambitions for the fate of the world. But it's a gun held by ex-con Tyler Keyes: falsely judged, mistrusted, and untested. A cowboy with nothing left to lose. View Less