Bøger af Peter Sasgen

In Moscow the suicide of a powerful Washington facilitator and the assassination of a Russian banking official blows the cover of a CIA spy inside the Kremlin. Her exposure reveals a sinister international conspiracy orchestrated by the U.S. and Russia.The blow up snares Berlin-based spec-ops officer Claire Hayden in a treacherous mission to infiltrate Belarus where the spy, Valentina Surkova, great-granddaughter of White Russians massacred by the Bolsheviks, has fled from her pursuers who will do anything to keep their secrets. Fighting to prevent Valentina's capture, Hayden, hardened veteran of clandestine operations, survives a double-cross meant to eliminate anyone with knowledge of the conspiracy. Dogged by American and Russian assassins, Hayden vows to unmask the conspirators and destroy her would-be killers. Fearless, undaunted by betrayal and murder, she tracks them down across Berlin from its glittering high-rises to its Nazi-era network of subterranean bunkers. Yet when face-to-face with her enemies Hayden is forced to confront the terrible price she's paid for a life haunted by lies, blood, and death.

Berlin, November 1945. Yuri Nosenko, a Russian army officer awaiting execution for a crime he didn't commit, is released from an NKVD prison and sent to Berlin with orders to find and kill Heinrich Müller, head of Gestapo. Müller has top secret Soviet documents that prove Joseph Stalin ordered the Katyn Forest Massacre of 15,000 Polish officers. He aims to swap them for immunity from prosecution as a war criminal, and for sanctuary in the West. Their disclosure could shatter the flimsy postwar peace between the United States and the USSR, even sabotage the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials.Trapped between American and Russian occupiers, pawn of the NKVD, Nosenko stumbles through the ruins of Berlin searching for Müller. Haunted by the horrors of the Eastern Front, he's consumed by memories of his missing wife and children whom he has vowed to find. Dogged by Russian assassins, Nosenko's dual quest evolves into a perilous and deadly trek that propels him to a final reckoning with his past, his future, and the days of killing.

A heart-stopping true tale of a submarine mission aimed at destroying Japan's merchant marine lifeline and ending World War II. By 1945, the U.S. Navy's submarine force in the Pacific had sunk over a thousand enemy cargo ships and tankers supplying the food, weapons, and oil Japan needed to continue to fight. Yet this once mighty merchant fleet continued to thrive in the Sea of Japan, where, protected from American submarines by a seemingly impenetrable barrier of deadly minefields, they provided a tenuous lifeline for the Japanese. Senior American commanders believed that if these enemy ships were sunk, Japan would be forced to surrender. Here is the incredible story of Operation Barney, the daring plot to penetrate those minefields and decimate the enemy fleet. The brainchild of the dedicated sub commander Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood, the mission would hinge on a new experimental sonar system that would, with luck, guide American submarines safely past the mines and into the open sea. The nine submarines chosen, nicknamed Hellcats, were tasked with the impossible-the combined crews of 760 submariners all knew their chances of survival depended on an unproven technology and their own nerve. Based on original documents and the poignant personal letters of one doomed Hellcat commander, Sasgen crafts a classic naval tale of one of World War II's most dangerous missions.

Thrilling submarine espionage and an inside look at the U.S. Navy's "silent service" Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War -- the one man aboard a sub who makes the critical decisions -- taking readers closer to the Soviet target than any work on submarine espionage has ever done before. This is the untold story of a covert submarine espionage operation against the Soviet Union during the Cold War as experienced by the Commanding Officer of an active submarine. Few individuals outside the intelligence and submarine communities knew anything about these top-secret missions. Cloaking itself in virtual invisibility to avoid detection, the USS Blackfin went sub vs. sub deep within Soviet-controlled waters north of the Arctic Circle, where the risks were extraordinarily high and anything could happen. Readers will know what it was like to carry out a covert mission aboard a nuke and experience the sights, sounds, and dangers unique to submarining.