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The Berkut (Paperback)
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The Berkut (Paperback)
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List price R436
Loot Price R377
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A lost classic by beloved novelist Joseph Heywood that helped put
the writer on the map, THE BERKUT begins at dusk as SS Colonel
Gunter Brumm parachutes silently through the sulphuric haze in the
smoldering ruins of Berlin, past the Soviet troops that encircle
the skeleton that the city has become in April 1945. With the
precision and skill that has marked his brilliant military career,
Brumm has completed the first stage of a simple yet seemingly
impossible mission: to evade the Allied forces swarming over Europe
and to smuggle "Herr Wolf," the greatest war criminal of the
twentieth century, to safety. Less than twenty-four hours later a
special Russian team snakes its way into Berlin's city limits,
headed for the Reich Chancellery. It is led by Vasily Petrov, "the
Berkut"-named after the Russian eagles trained to hunt wolves, a
man handpicked by Stalin himself for his ability to track down his
quarry and driven by the knowledge that failure means certain
death. THE BERKUT is a classic story of pursuit, of hunters and the
hunted, that pits two elite teams against each other-both of them
brave, resourceful, of great physical prowess and so fully
motivated that only the winners will survive. Scores of other
characters populate this engrossing thriller: priests, deserters,
partisans, Nazis on the run, Swiss guides, Austrian refugees-as
well as a larger-than-life OSS operative who is the only person
among the hundreds of thousands of Allied troops in Europe who
realizes that Herr Wolf is not only alive but on the verge of
escaping justice. Joseph Heywood's novel is a story of enormous
conviction and urgency, made even more compelling for being based
on facts that have yet to be proven fiction.
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