Bøger af Shaun Stafford

Alex Savage is an asset. He's been an asset all of his life, usually carrying out jobs for the British government. Jobs that they ultimately want to deny responsibility for. A former SAS corporal, and one-time operator for the Firm, Alex is now burnt out, jaded, with a whole truckload of baggage, and he doesn't care what he does or who kills for money. For the last few years, Alex has branched out into the private sector, where the pay is more lucrative, and the risks are supposedly less. After a lucrative, if challenging, operation on the European mainland, Alex returns home where he makes a shocking discovery, one which changes his entire outlook on life. Assets for the intelligence services can earn a lot of money, but once they dabble in the murky world of organized crime the rulebook is even less forgiving. In that world, the enemies have long memories and brutal forms of vengeance. Alex is not entirely blameless, and he must come to terms with the truth that the sins of a father will be revisited upon their sons. An endless cycle, perhaps, but one where he must travel to Russia, with hatred in his mind, to exact his own vengeance.

It began in 1995, with "die Stunde X", an alternative history novel set in a Great Britain overthrown by the Nazi regime in 1941. This opening novel, from a writer in his early twenties, was brutal and shocking.It was twenty years before a follow-up novel, "nach Schema F", was written, set a couple of years after the first, and providing us with an unlikely heroine in ex-Gestapo officer Ellen Brauchitsch. A third novel, "Jetzt schlägt's aber 13", followed in 2017, and concluded what was to be the first trilogy in the Greater German Reich trilogy.Now, gathered together in one volume, this first trilogy is presented as both a Kindle version and a limited edition (100 copies) paperback version. Shaun Stafford writes: "About this omnibusThis omnibus compiles the first three novels in my Greater German Reich series. I wrote "die Stunde X" in 1994, when I was 24/25, and I never envisaged writing a sequel, let alone three more books. I have to be honest and say that it was difficult to write the first sequel, "nach Schema F", which was published twenty years after "die Stunde X". Difficult, because my writing style has altered over those intervening twenty years. Difficult also because I had made a couple of mistakes in that first book (Gestapo officers were known by civilian police ranks rather than SS ranks, for example). "Die Stunde X" was very episodic, and most chapters ended on a cliff-hanger, more so as the pages turned. For the sequel, I tried to develop the characters, but obviously they're nowhere near as fully developed as they would be for my other novels, which are more character led. For the books in the Greater German Reich series, the focus is on the scenario - the Nazis being the overlords in an occupied Great Britain - and on the plot. These first three novels, "die Stunde X", "nach Schema F" and "Jetzt schlägt's aber 13" are primarily centred around the German occupation of Great Britain. The fourth book in the series is focused on a conflict between Germany and the US, so it's a definite shift in location, even though the overall scenario remains the same. It seemed right to issue this omnibus now, a couple of years after "Jetzt schlägt's aber 13" was published, perhaps as a Kindle introduction to the series now that the next few books will be based on the American continent, but more than that, it seems right to issue this limited edition paperback omnibus so that people who enjoyed these first three books, undoubtedly on their Kindles, can have a thick volume on their bookshelves to demonstrate their literary taste to visitors."

It is the year 2000, and the world is on the brink of a war between its two superpowers - the Greater German Reich and the United States of America. Reichsführer-SS Schaemmel, disabled after a terrorist attack which destroyed Germania - the Greater German Reich's former capital - finds himself as the most powerful man in Germany, and must contemplate following the incapacitated Führer's wishes to create Lebensraum for the German Volk by catapulting the Fatherland into a war to end all wars. Major Ben Urbanowicz, US Army helicopter pilot, finds himself as the catalyst that could spark off the war when he is captured by the Germans after the Kiowa reconnaissance helicopter he is flying is shot down over the Bering Strait, further inflaming the diplomatic tension between the US and Germany.Captain Andy Dean of the United States Army Special Forces - the Green Berets - is tasked with leading an operational detachment behind enemy lines to sabotage one of three secret German Militärflugplätze in Eastern Siberia, located dangerously close to Alaska. SS-Hauptsturmführer Weber, of the Hauptamt Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS - the Reichsführer's personal staff - has been tasked with hunting down members of the mythical Fourth Reich, a group of treacherous, high-ranking SS officers. His search for traitors will take him from the Reich's burgeoning new capital, Munich, to the frozen, unforgiving tundra of Siberia. Along the way, he will seek the help of Ellen Brauchitsch, a former Gestapo officer with a chequered history.In Washington, incumbent president David Vermont, psychologically traumatized by the events of the last few years, faces a leadership challenge from billionaire businessman Donald Trump, who is keen to lead America to victory.As the world drifts closer to war, these are the people who may decide the fates of Germany and America.