Wolves at Our Door is the immediate sequel to Cold
Lonely Courage. I wanted to revisit
my protagonist, Allied super-assassin Madeleine Toche. In Wolves, Madeleine and her mentor
Berthold Hartmann go after the Nazi Atomic Bomb project in a bid to keep the
Nazis from turning their inevitable defeat into absolute victory and world
domination. Hartmann, a German Jewish
war hero In writing Wolves, I was able
to entice my French publisher, Editions Encre Rouge to sign the entire
Although an Indie publisher, Editions Encre Rouge is distributed by the
giant publisher Hachette. The Madeleine
Toche series is for sale in 60 countries in English and French.
Madeleine
Toche series in English and French.
Overall my inspiration comes from the desperate need for
more action adventure, thriller and military-themed novels featuring women as
the heroes. There are hundreds of
real-life examples from history where women played the pivotal and essential
roles in successful military and clandestine campaigns. I wanted the world to recognize these obscure
heroes, so many of whom lost to time, will never have their stories told.
In mainstream literature and films, the female characters
are so often stunningly beautiful, indestructible and dominant. Real heroes are usually must act alone, with
only their courage and sense of what’s right and wrong to guide them.
Here’s an important quote from the officer who recruited
women for the British Special Operations Executive in WWII:
“I was responsible for recruiting women for the work, in
the face of a good deal of opposition, I
may say, from the powers that be. In my
view, women were very much better than men for the
work. Women, as you must know,
have a far greater capacity for cool and lonely courage than men.”
—Captain Selwyn Jepson, British Special Operations Executive
Senior Recruiting Officer, World War Two.
About the Author
Educated in the U.S., England and France
Soren sat his O-level examinations at the Heathland School in Hounslow, London
in 1981. His undergraduate degree in
Forestry is from the University of Minnesota, 1986. His law degree is from William Mitchell
College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota 1991.
Soren’s novel, Cold Lonely Courage
won Fade In Magazine’s 2009 Award for Fiction. Fade In was voted the nation’s
favorite movie magazine by the Washington Post and the L.A. Times
in 2011 and 2012.
The French edition of Cold Lonely
Courage, Courage was published January 2019, by Encre Rouge
Editions, distributed by Hachette Livre in 60 countries. Soren’s contemporary novel, Tim will
be released along with the rest of the books in the Madeleine Toche series of
historical thrillers.
His latest book is the historical action
adventure novel, Wolves at Our Door.
Website: https://www.sorenpetrek.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soren.petrek
About the Book:
The Allies and the Nazis are in a deadly race to develop the ultimate
weapon while supersonic V-2 rockets rain down on London. Madeleine Toche and
Berthold Hartmann, the German super assassin who taught her to kill, search for
the secret factory where Werner von Braun and his Gestapos masters use slave
labor to build the weapons as the bodies of the innocent pile up. The Allied
ground forces push towards Berlin while the German SS fight savagely for each
inch of ground.
Finding the factory hidden
beneath Mount Kohnstein, Hartmann contacts his old enemy, Winston Churchill and
summons Madeleine to his side. While she moves to bring the mountain down on
her enemies, Hartmann leads a daring escape from the dreaded Dora concentration
camp to continue his revenge against the monsters who ruined his beloved
Germany.
Together with the Russian
Nachtlexen, the Night Witches, fearsome female pilots the race tightens as the
United States and the Germans successfully carry out an atomic bomb test.
Germany installs an atom bomb
in a V-2 pointed towards London, while the US delivers one to a forward base in
the Pacific. The fate of the Second World War and the future of mankind hangs in
the balance.
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