WW II

Cold War Trilogy – My Three-Book Boxed Set of Spy Versus Spy Action-Adventure Thrillers is on a Kindle Sale Today.

January 6, 2018 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

They are three of my best-selling, historic, thrillers for the price of one. Over 1200 pages of exciting reading at two-thirds off. It’s the best deal on the web. They have three novels have almost 300 Five-Star ratings on over 500 Reviews, an average of 4.4 Stars.

You’ll get Winner Lose All, Amongst My Enemies, and Thursday at Noon. Together, they can give you more than enough action and suspense the next time you curl up in front of the fire, need to tune out a long airplane flight, or head for one of those tropical beaches.

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Set in the spring of 1945, “Winner Lose All” features American, Russian, British agents fighting themselves and the Gestapo over the new German Wonder Weapon Technology, which will determine the world’s balance of power for years to come. At the center of “Amongst My Enemies” is a rusting German U-boat lying on the bottom of the Baltic. Inside is a fortune in gold and stolen art, and a secret that could tear NATO apart. In “Thursday at Noon”, reviewed in The New Yorker and set in Egypt in 1962, a burned-out CIA agent is all that stands between German rocket scientists, the CIA, KGB, a coup in Cairo, and a new Middle-East war.

Need a pool book, beach book, or some good reads for a long plane ride? These fast-paced spy stories are known for their pacing, twisting plot lines, and some deliciously evil bad guys. See if you don’t agree.

Thanks, and have a great new year, Bill Brown

A 3-Book Boxed Set of Great Cold War Thrillers for $0.99. Grab One Today!

August 18, 2017 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

Three of my best-selling historic action-adventure thrillers, over 1200 pages of exciting reading, for a Buck. It’s the best deal on the web.

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You get Winner Lose All, Amongst My Enemies, and Thursday at Noon. Together they have 286 Five-Star ratings on almost 500 Reviews, an average of 4.4 Stars.

Set in the spring of 1945, “Winner Lose All” features American, Russian, British agents fighting themselves and the Gestapo over the German weapons technology which will determine the world’s balance of power for years to come.

At the center of “Amongst My Enemies” is a rusting German U-boat lying on the bottom of the Baltic. Inside is a fortune in gold and stolen art, and secret that could tear NATO apart.

In “Thursday at Noon“, reviewed in The New Yorker and set in Egypt in 1962, a burned-out CIA agent is all that stands between German rocket scientists, the CIA, KGB, a coup in Cairo, and a new Middle-East war.

Need a pool book, beach book, or some good reads for a long plane ride? These fast-paced spy stories are known for their pacing, twisting plot lines, and some deliciously evil bad guys. See if you don’t agree.

Bill Brown

The author of 7 other outstanding action-adventure novels on Kindle, with over 600 Five-Star Ratings. In addition to the Trilogy, you’ll like his contemporary thrillers like The Undertaker and Aim True, My Brothers, as well as his Bob Burke suspense thriller series with Burke’s War, Burke’s Gamble, and his new Burke’s Revenge. Grab one and Enjoy!

“Winner Lose All” Cold War Thriller is on a Kindle Sale Today

June 9, 2017 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

Winner Lose All, one of my reader all-time Cold War thriller favorites, is on a special Kindle Sale today for only $0.99, 75% off the normal Kindle sticker price. With 4.3 stars on 219 Kindle Reviews, it’s easy to see why. It makes the perfect read for the beach, swimming pool, or airplane for a long trip. Click on the red link below, go to its Kindle Book Page, and check it out while the sale is still on. And Enjoy!

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Combining the best of World War II historical fiction, action adventure, and romance, this fast-paced spy thriller will resonate. As WW II grinds to an halt in the rubble of Nazi Germany, all eyes turn to the next ‘cold’ one. The Americans, the Russians, and the British know the future belongs to whomever can grab Hitler’s ‘Wonder Weapon’ technology, because his new rockets, jet fighters, and submarines will shape the balance of world power for decades to come. Old enemies become tomorrow’s allies, old friends can’t be trusted, and lies and double-dealing are now the norm in this spy vs spy thriller.

Thanks, Bill

“Last of the Few,” by Max Arthur — 5 Stars!

May 27, 2017 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

If you like military history, and the Battle of Britain, this is a very remarkable book. It is not a narrative history. From cover to cover, it consists of long and short 1st person quotes from RAF pilots recounting missions they flew during the 4-5 month long Battle of Britain. It puts you in the cockpit with them, day after day as they take off and fight wave after wave of German fighters and bombers. To say it is riveting is putting it mildly. With typically dry British humor, they describe the chaos and confusion of fast dogfights, victories, defeats, and getting shot down by enemy planes they didn’t even see. Through it, you see their fears, not so much of dying, but of being badly wounded or perhaps badly burned or maimed. Pressure? Tension? Nothing less than the survival of Britain and ultimately the war itself was on their shoulders. Yet they somehow hung on, kept going up, and won the battle by holding off the German onslaught and not losing. Interestingly, Arthur was also able to get quotes from the Luftwaffe aces they were facing, and we get a nice picture of the problems they faced as well. It is a remarkable book.

William F. Brown

Amongst My Enemies, one of My Best Thriller Novels is on a Kindle Sale Today

May 21, 2017 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

Today, you can grab a copy of Amongst My Enemies, my best and highly-rated, spy versus spy action-adventure thriller novel, which is on a special Kindle $0.99 sale. The sale won’t last long, so check it out on the link below.

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Inside a rusting German U-Boat are millions in gold bars, stolen art, and a secret that could tear NATO apart. The KGB, the CIA, Nazi SS hit men, even the Israeli Mossad – everyone is willing to kill for it, but only former US Airman Mike Randall knows the truth in this Cold War spy versus spy thriller. Some want the gold, some want Randall dead, and some want proof that there is a high-ranking spy inside NATO itself. What Mike Randall wants is much simpler. Caught between the Kremlin’s spies, the CIA, the Mossad, and a new, deadly, 4th Reich, all he wants is to pay an old debt with a steel-jacketed bullet.
Looking for a good beach book or a great thriller novel to curl up with in front of the fire? This fast-moving conspiracy thriller is from the author of Bob Burke action adventure series — Burke’s War, Burke’s Gamble, and Burke’s Revenge, plus The Undertaker, Winner Lose All, Thursday at Noon, and Aim True, My Brothers. In total, they have over 500 Kindle 5-Star Reviews. Grab one and Enjoy!

Three more new book covers – Bill Brown suspense novels

October 31, 2016 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

NEW COVERS! I decided to put some new covers on some of my suspense novels and had my wonderful cover designer, Todd Hebertson, come up with some new ideas and he came up with some really neat ones. I put the first three out last week. Here’s the last three. Let me know what you think.

You can check out my other suspense novels, read a few chapters, see some of my other writing, and the status of my next book at my web site http://box5462.temp.domains/~billbro4 Check ’em out!

William F. Brown is the author of 8 suspense novels with over 500 Five-Star Reviews: Burke’s War, Burke’s Gamble, The Undertaker, Amongst My Enemies, Thursday at Noon, Winner Take All, and Aim True, My Brothers, and The Cold War Trilogy. They are all available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and now on Audible Audio Books. You read about them and the author’s screenplays and other writing at billbrownwritesnovels.wordpress.com

Book Review – The Valhalla Exchange suspense thriller by Jack Higgins

September 22, 2016 by William F. Brown Leave a Comment

“Jack Higgins” is the pseudonym of very prolific British suspense novelist named Harry Patterson, who lives on one of the Channel Islands, is 87 years old, and has and has now published a phenomenal 84 spy novels. He is an experienced professional and prodigious writer who keeps banging them out, but obviously, some are better than others. His all-time best signature piece is The Eagle Has Landed, which was subsequently made into and equally good movie. Most of them center on WW II, Ireland, or an assassination, and they

are all light and readable, and not very complicated. Most of it is fairly straightforward good guys versus bad guys spy novels. Having read a decent number of his books, The Valhalla Exchange lies somewhere in the middle of the deck. Many of his stories use a literary device like of an old man telling a story in flashback, as he did here, or a tombstone in a graveyard, as a way of transporting the reader back in time. This one takes up the long-time mystery of what ever happened to Martin Bormann. History says Hitler’s secretive, but very powerful, Nazi Party Secretary was killed on the Weidendammer Bridge in central Berlin after escaping from the Bunker after Hitler killed himself. That story has many holes in it and there have been many reports of Bormann in South America long afterward. Higgins’ story has a disguised Bormann escaping south into Bavaria where he runs afoul of an American Army squad and a castle full of elderly political prisoners and generals. Well, the plot is a bit strange from that point, but if you ignore that, it makes a good spy novel to take on an airplane or to the swimming pool , nonetheless.

William F. Brown is the author of 8 spy novels with over 500 Five-Star Reviews: Burke’s War, Burke’s Gamble, The Undertaker, Amongst My Enemies, Thursday at Noon, Winner Take All, and Aim True, My Brothers, and The Cold War Trilogy. They are all available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and now on Audible Audio Books. You read about them and the author’s screenplays and other writing at billbrownwritesnovels.wordpress.com

‘Freedom’s Forge’ by Arthur Herman – How US Industry and WW II

September 7, 2014 by William F. Brown

“Freedom’s Forge” is an excellent book and a must read for anyone interested in business history. It is the story of how US business ramped up from a dead start during the depression and produced all those tanks, airplanes, and ships that won WW II not only for the United States but for Great Britain and Russia as well. It is the story of many people, but primarily Bill Knudsen, the assembly line expert and President of GM who Roosevelt called in 1940 to organize war production, and of Henry Kaiser, master builder and the father of the Victory and Liberty Ships and the west coast shipyards. It is the

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story of B-17s, B-29s, tanks, guns, Rosie the Riveter, and mobilization of the US car companies. The weapons design, redesign, manufacturing plant layout, union problems, Washington politics, shortages of raw material, and every other problem you can think of is an amazing story of good triumphing over stupid. It is also the story of how determined businessmen like Knudsen fought interference from government bureaucracies, Congress, labor unions, and even the white house to get the job done to supply not only the US, but Great Britain and Russia as well. By the end of the war, GM alone outproduced Germany, Japan and Italy put together, and we can see in hindsight that Japanese Admiral Yamamoto was right. They had indeed awakened a ‘sleeping giant;’ and when Freedom’s Forge began producing arms, they did, they never stood a chance.

William F. Brown is the author of 5 suspense novels with over 300 Five-Star Reviews: The Undertaker, Amongst My Enemies, Thursday at Noon, Winner Take All, and now Aim True, My Brothers. They are all available on Kindle and now on Audible Audio Books. You read about them at billbrownwritesnovels.wordpress.com

Book Review – Flowers From Berlin – Noel Hynd – Thriller Novels

June 22, 2014 by William F. Brown

“Flowers From Berlin” by Noel Hynd was first published in hardback 1985. Kindle released the “25^th Anniversary Edition” last year, and while I don’t quite understand Amazon math, like “Day Of the Jackal,” in 1971, “The Eagle Has Landed,” in 1975, and “Eye of the Needle,” in 1978,” it remains one of the standards of suspense/ espionage fiction. Unlike so many ‘series’ novels, Flowers from Berlin is a very good, self-contained,

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standalone story. It has stood the test of time, and deserves to be reread. The story takes place in 1939, on the eve of World War II. Nazi Germany is brash and self-confident. The West, including the US, is confused and indecisive. Isolationist sentiment is on the rise, and Roosevelt’s popularity is at a low. Seeing an opportunity, Hitler dispatches his top agent to the US on a mission of sabotage and espionage, which evolves into an attempt to kill the president. In Flowers From Berlin, determined to stop him is a maverick FBI agent, William Cochrane. Like its three predecessors listed above, the chase is on. Is Flowers from Berlin as good as them? Close, but not quite. Those books did have the advantage of excellent movies which succeeded the books, helping to create vivid images, but in “The Eagle Has Landed,” Jack Higgins’ actually has us rooting for a German assassin trying to kill Winston Churchill. That is impossible to top. “Day of the Jackal” features a tedious French detective, a ticking clock, and a heart stopping ending. “Eye of the Needle” is most similar to “Flowers from Berlin,” but within even creepier bad guy, played so brilliantly by Donald Sutherland in the movie. All in all though, “Flowers From Berlin” remains a genre classic that deserves to be reread. Best of all, unlike so many of today’s suspense novels, it is not, “A William Cochrane Novel Book #6.” Too many writers think that readers just won’t go for a good standalone story with its own unique, memorable characters. Take one look at my “Favorite 4” above, and you’ll see how long that is. It is also worth noting that all four authors have written many other stories, all set in different times and places, and all equally entertaining.