Soldier in Germany
James Snyder
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Description
COLD MOUNTAIN meets ROMEO AND JULIET on the crazy-mean streets of 1972 Cold War Europe. "A powerful book in which grimness and lyricism fight to a draw." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) When Air Force sergeant Christopher Adams finds himself the lone survivor after his forward observation post is overrun by enemy forces in Vietnam, he realizes he only wants to go somewhere he might quietly and peacefully mend his young, torn body and shattered mind. Instead, the fateful-as-they-are-ironic hands of the military drop him onto the world stage of continents facing off in Cold War. Here, in the heartland of Germany, and a mere twenty-five or so years after Hitler and the Nazis brought those same continents to near ruin, Chris now finds himself surrounded by a world in chaos and flux, protest and terror, and shivering in the imminent shadow of nuclear Armageddon. A world in which there is little quiet, and even less peace. But then, as journeys of fate and irony are wont to do, he meets her-Nikolina von Lotzenburg, a.k.a. Nikki Lotz, a beautiful, fiercely independent, enormously evasive, seventeen-year-old top photographic model who escaped from East Germany when she was six, and who-now surrounded by those, including her equally fierce mother, Rami, that would try and control every fiber of her high-profile and higher-stakes existence-may be even a more damaged soul than himself...
Product Details
Price
$12.75
Publisher
Bandera Publishing Company
Publish Date
April 17, 2024
Pages
330
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.5 X 0.74 inches | 0.92 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9798990153219
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James Snyder was born in Memphis, Tennessee and lived in many parts of the United States, before settling with his family in Napa Valley. Among a variety of careers and occupations, he was a soldier with a tactical mobile operations unit in Germany, as well as an executive for a Fortune 500 company. He has published short stories in the Houghton Mifflin Black Mask anthologies, the Ginosko Literary Journal, and was a finalist in the New Letters' Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Fiction. He is the author of the military thriller AMERICAN WARRIOR, the suspense thriller DESOLATION RUN, the literary coming-of-age THE BEAUTIFUL-UGLY, and the short story collection TALES OF THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY He occasionally blogs at jamessnyder.net and currently lives in Texas where he writes fulltime.