It's 1938, and Europe teeters on the precipice of World War II. The main western allies, Britain and France, beset with fear of a second continental war, procrastinate and appease the Führer in his demands. With the fall of Austria come terrible pogroms against the Jews, political opponents and the gay community. Kurt codename "Chameleon" is sent to Prague just before the 1938 Munich Crisis, to obtain information on a mole working inside General Keitel's office at OKW, working for Czech Military Intelligence; and to foil a secret False Flag plot by Heydrich and Himmler to blow up the German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin and a Berlin passenger train during the rush hour in order to blame it on the Czechs with fake evidence, to create a pretext for the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Meanwhile, Abwehr Agent Kasper Eberhardt has gone missing in Paris after collecting a book containing details of Himmler's deadly plan and the Abwehr want it, to expose the SS for the gangsters they are. Victor is closing in on the assassin known as the "Ghost". He may not like what he finds.Apart from his work as an Abwehr agent and plotter against the regime, Kurt continues executing SS men from the concentration camps. Kurt and Richard grow closer through absence, but can they possibly become lovers.?Kristallnacht presents Göring with a headache, whilst the small but growing group of plotters in the "von Wallenberg Orchestra" gains new and powerful friends in General Beck and Hans Oster.

Chameleon, Nemesis - Chameleon, #4

Chris Black brings you the THIRD nail-biting thriller in the Chameleon series, is full of twists and turns and simply dripping with historical facts and events unfurling seamlessly throughout, along with the omnipresent apparatus of Himmler and Heydrich's evil legions. Hitler draws up his plans of conquest in Eastern Europe while the western powers adopt appeasement in the face of Hitler's aggression. A terrible secret is out, a SS Dr. is murdered and a pitiless evil is exposed, with a horrifying vision of what is yet to come. The Gestapo are closing in on the enigmatic assassin known as the "Ghost" ... Or are they?Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant-Colonel) Graf von Hagendorf dispatches Kurt, Codename "Chameleon" on a secret mission to Switzerland, to find the Brotherhood of the Blood Eagle, who assassinated Vrubel and the Rogue Czechs: "Chameleon, the Terror Begins". He's about to return to Germany empty-handed, when the mysterious "Maximilian Dracon" engages him in conversation. But Herr Dracon is far more than a lonely old man looking for a conversation, as Kurt quickly learns. Kurt is on a deadly mission . to resist the Nazis by any and all means he can. The von Wallenberg Orchestra joins forces with the mysterious Brotherhood of the Blood Eagle in their deadly resistance to the Nazi regime. The past comes back to haunt Kurt, when "Mischa: book one, Chameleon" confesses he can identify Kurt as the Abwehr agent in the Türkenstrasse House "Chameleon", but unseen forces are at work.Richard "Chameleon, the Terror Begins" is drafted into the army. Victor, "The Terror Begins" must choose between his friendship with Kurt and his duty to the SD. In a world of secrets, lies, murder and conspiracy, it's hard to know who your friends really are.

Chameleon, Death of a Nation - Chameleon, #3

For 60 years, the "Founders" have been secretly infiltrating every aspect of the American government, law enforcement, military and judiciary, influencing government policy and biding their time for the day they can seize power, in the chaos that has followed the Covid Pandemic, the Founders believe that day has come to strike at the very heart of American Democracy... A titanic power struggle is taking place between the western democracies; China and Russia in a new Cold War with hotspots of proxy-wars, such as the American led Anglo-American-French coalition in Iran, where British SAS Colonel Elizabeth Brooks commands an elite unit of Anglo-American Special Forces. Following a mission behind enemy lines, Elizabeth's brother-in-law, John Crane of "Crane Technologies" shows up in Iran. Crane Tech has developed a cloaking device, but the secret's out, the Founders know about it and they want it desperately to carry out their attack on Washington, and will stop at nothing to get it. Fearing he will be murdered, John needs a contingency plan. Elizabeth and her team are that plan.FBI Special Agent Dexter Quills is in Virginia hunting a vicious serial killer, the "Three-Sixty Strangler" when he receives a call that will change his life forever when he's ordered to the Crane Mansion, where the entire family with the exception of John's youngest son Adam (Elizabeth Brooks's biological son) have been murdered by Founder terrorists who want the "Perseus II" cloaking device in order to detonate a nuclear weapon over Washington DC to wipe out the Government during the President's state of the union address. Fate brings Elizabeth and Dexter together and the fate of millions of Americans and the free world itself is in their hands, in a violent race against time to prevent the greatest tragedy in American history.

Twisted Maze

Kurt, haunted by the bloody events in Bavaria (Book 1, "Chameleon") is avowed to destroy the Nazis by any means he can. Nobody suspects him as being the mysterious marksman during the Bavarian Affair, "Chameleon", and with everyone involved apart from Kurt being dead, his identity remains safe for now. But Kurt has become a killer now, and after executing Meister in revenge for murdering Hauptmann Wagner, he becomes a fully committed member of the "Graf von Hagendorf Orchestra", dedicated to Ridding Germany of Hitler by legal means or fowl. He's now a man who lives by the law of the gun, choosing Gestapo sadists to kill in his spare time, while in his day job, he is one of the Abwehr's brightest counterespionage agents, hot on the heels of a Russian NKVD spy ring.     Meanwhile, Hitler is summoned to von Hindenburg's country estate and ordered to either curtail Ernst Röhm and the SA, or he will be sacked as chancellor and replaced by a military panel, Hitler must choose between power and killing a friend.     As the infamous Night of the Long Knives unfurls, Kurt is deep in treason and retribution, as well as dealing with his personal secrets and demons, haunted with grief for his lover Xavier, "Chameleon" murdered by the Nazis.     Unbeknown to Kurt, Hauptmann Wagner's happy-go-lucky son Richard has been denounced as a homosexual and is arrested by the Gestapo. After months of torture and abuse in a Gestapo prison, Richard is sent to the infamous Dachau Concentration Camp, where Hell meets reality, and for many harrowing months, he must endure the unendurable; orgies of violence and inhumanity, breaking him body and soul. Weak, hungry and systematically brutalized, all hope has gone and only despair remains. Richard knows he's just weeks from death.     Back in Berlin, Kurt learns through a surprising informant, that his old Hauptmann's son is in Dachau, and with an audacious plan, he resolves to rescue him before it's too late.     But this is a tale of Three Men who share the same secret, so meet Untersturmführer Victor Graf von Ritter, who might be termed a reluctant Nazi. Reluctant or not, Victor is young and ambitious and he has a policeman's mind, which soon gets him noticed in Berlin. He is summoned to Berlin to help investigate the theft of a Gestapo list. The investigation soon spirals into something far more sinister, when witnesses start being murdered, and military intelligence reports on the Soviet Union are found in the luggage of a courier shot dead by border police at the German-Austrian border, events that will throw Victor and Kurt into the same fateful trajectory.     On his return to Berlin from Dachau with Richard, Kurt is informed of the border shooting and the War Ministry plans that have been found, and is ordered to liaise with Untersturmführer Graf von Ritter of the SD. When Kurt and Victor meet at a murder scene, they're both horrified, realising they had met once before, the previous year in more, intimate circumstances. But can they put aside their personal feelings and their shared secret to work together and identify the sinister foreign power or organisation behind the forgeries and halt an atrocity they're planning at the Nuremberg Nazi Party Rally? Can Kurt put duty and country before his desire to see Hitler and his cronies dead...?

The Terror Begins - Chameleon, #2

The Human race is facing extinction due to radioactive sterility. It's been centuries since WWIII in old Earth Year 2025, and the world remains poisoned by the silent killers Carbon-14 and plutonium.     The human race is fragmented and much of the old world is a nuclear wastelands inhabited by different survivor factions. The cannibalistic Ferals; the nomadic Scavengers who traverse the wastelands picking among the ruins of the old world for useful items to barter for medicines. The Dusteaters, who are at war with the technologically advanced and despotic Utopians, the most powerful of the human enclaves, who have forged a new civilisation that is controlled by an elite of fertile scientists who live underground in Sub City from where they keep the topsiders "Mudsurfers" in perpetual surfdom. Thundersky Reece is such a "Mudsurfer", but he's different and he knows it. So do others...     Thundersky often wonders why he doesn't get sick? All the topsiders get sick from the radiation and the cancers. So sick, that living to 35 is considered a grand old age. Only the Scholars live for longer. Not only is he immune from the radiation and cancers that have plagued the earth for hundreds of years, he's also a genius and just 19. Not all the Scholars are tyrants; some believe the exploitation of topsiders is cruel and wrong. Grand High Scholar Blackstone Washington and High Scholar Blossom Flora, have for the past twenty years, been protecting the "Genesis Child" (Thundersky Reece) from the Grand High Council who would kill him because he threatens their power and authority.     People are getting suspicious and asking questions about the topsider who never gets sick, they must act quickly before his true identity is discovered and they contrive to bring Thundersky into Sub City.     Utopia's systems are controlled by a central artificial intelligence, the ARTI-QS-602. "Arti" which seems to be involving itself in the conspiracy to hide Thundersky from the Silosian Secret Service "SSS". It seems that the AI has its own personal reasons to protect the "Genesis Child".     Zim Steven, the sinister and ambitious head of the SSS discovers that Thundersky Reece is the Genesis Child, but before he can act to have him murdered, an ancient 21st Century quantum system is accidentally activated at a secret location beneath the flooded ruins of Manhattan, and a countdown begins to unleash another thermonuclear holocaust upon our dying world and a race against time begins.     Thundersky is selected to go to New York with an elite team of military tacticals to locate the NORAD system and deactivate it. Meanwhile, Zim Steven lays his plans to make certain that Thundersky and his companions never return to Silo City alive.    While in the wilderness, the four survivors make an unlikely ally, the Prophetess, and Thundersky falls in love with a handsome young Dusteater fighter, Reaper Bloodbuck.     The Prophetess will reveal things to Thundersky's that will unravel his life and everything he believes in, and soon, it's realizes that the humble Mudsurfer is far more powerful than even the Scholars could have imagined.

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