The Story Behind Wolves At Our Door by Soren Paul Petrek

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

Soren Petrek is a practicing criminal trial attorney, admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1991.  Married with two adult children, Soren continues to live and work in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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.

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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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