Happy Book Birthday The Death of the Kremlin Czar by Joerg H. Trauboth

 

We're thrilled to announce the release of Joerg H. Trauboth's new thriller, THE DEATH OF THE KREMLIN CZAR today! To help celebrate, we are asking our readers if you can please pretty please pick up a copy at Amazon U.S. or Amazon Germany and come back and tell us how you liked it? Or, leave a review at Amazon! 

 

Congratulations, Joerg, on your new release, THE DEATH OF THE KREMLIN CZAR!

Is Now Available in Kindle (U.S. edition) and Paperback, Hard Cover, Kindle (German edition)!

 

 

 

Title: The Death of the Kremlin Czar
Author: Joerg H. Trauboth
Publisher: Gedankenkunst-Verlag
Pages: 468
Genre: Thriller

Russian President and new Czar Ivan Pavlenko suddenly shows his true colors during the war in Ukraine. He wants the old Soviet Union back. The world is on the brink. The influential oligarch Alexei Sokolov wants to prevent Ivan's megalomaniacal plans and is planning a fundamental new beginning for Russia. To achieve this, the Russian president must die. How will the US President react to the CIA's proposal to support the oligarch, who has a romantic relationship with the Russian President's partner, Yulia? 

The poison attack is perfectly prepared, but the Boeing with the oligarch Alexei Sokolow, his lover and over 100 passengers on board is hijacked by a Ukrainian terrorist and is supposed to crash over Berlin after knocking out the crew by shooting. Former elite soldier Marc Anderson is on board with his family and takes over with Alexei. The two flight amateurs try to get control. Will the landing and the assassination succeed or will the Kremlin Czar strike back brutally after realizing the role of Yulia?

The Death of the Kremlin Czar is available at Amazon (U.S. edition) and Amazon (German edition).

“Watch out! High-voltage line at three hundred meters!“, shouted the co-pilot.
“In sight!“ the commander replied calmly, pulling up just before the obstacle and immediately pushing the helicopter down again. 

The two pilots of the Ukrainian armed forces guided the old Russian Mi-8 helicopter with their night vision devices on a zigzag course away from populated areas and Russian defense walls to the target. The destination was Luhansk. The mission: to free their own soldiers from Russian captivity. They had volunteered for the Ascension mission and trained for the flight intensively in the simulator supplied by the USA, including simulated enemy fire and evasive maneuvers. The simulator‘s current aerial photographs proved to be extremely helpful in the dimly lit night. A lot had changed in Donbass since the region was forcibly annexed by Russian President Ivan Pavlenko. Destroyed cities, abandoned villages, mined escape routes, deportations, rapes, mass graves, poverty, hunger, thirst and despair. 

Ivan Pavlenko was called “Czar Ivan II“ by the co-pilot, a former history teacher. But not only by him. The Ukrainian people hated this man who had brought so much suffering to their families with his megalomania and wanted to steal their country. Even those people whose thinking was shaped by Russian culture had turned their backs on this madman in Moscow. 

The co-pilot turned to Iris, the commander of the special forces, and signaled “30 minutes.“ 

Iris had been given his nickname because - like the German anti-aircraft missile of the same name - he was known for always hitting the bull‘s eye. Everything Iris tackled led to success. On a street in Kiev, the child-pushing, medium-sized, friendly man at his wife‘s side would not have been noticed. No one could have guessed that the man flirting with his young daughter was a rare mixture of analyst, combat soldier and leader with a stellar military career ahead of him. 

Iris looked at his men. The two teams sat opposite each other and remained completely relaxed despite the loud engine noise in the old transport helicopter with its fake Russian registration. 

Perhaps it was a kind of meditative calm before the dangerous mission. Or perhaps it was the awareness that they could be hit by a Russian missile at any time during this night-time low-level flight into the Luhansk Oblast without being able to do anything about it. There weren‘t even any parachutes on board, because every kilogram counted for the return flight, during which the aged and rattling Mi-8 would be fully occupied. 

The commander of the special forces fixed his gaze on the German opposite, who returned the look and nodded. Iris had received authorization for this rescue mission with a foreign team member from the highest authority. He had only agreed to it because the German Marc Anderson was considered a legend in the West despite being only thirty-five years old. Together with the US Navy SEALs, he had evacuated an American aircrew from the depths of Afghanistan and later served as a private security officer. 

The US president‘s family was rescued from the hands of Iranian terrorists on a luxury yacht by the security agent and his team. He and his team were personally honored by the US President. The Iranian terrorists took revenge and brutally murdered Marc‘s wife in front of their house in Hamburg.

 

 

Jörg H. Trauboth, born in 1943 near Berlin, logged over two thousand flight hours as a Weapon Systems Officer Instructor in the Luftwaffe, flying PHANTOM F-4F / RF-4E and TORNADO fighter jets, and over 3000 hours in light aircraft. At the age of fifty, he left the service with the rank of Colonel in the General Staff. He received training as a Special Risk Consultant from the English Control Risk Group and served as Managing Director Germany, dealing with extortion and kidnapping cases in South America and Eastern Europe. Shortly thereafter, he founded his own consulting firm, quickly establishing an outstanding international reputation. Trauboth protected his clients with a 24-hour task force during product extortions, product recalls, kidnappings, and image crises. He was the first President of the European Crisis Management Academy in Vienna and President of the American Yankee Association.

He is known as a respected expert in the media on security-related topics. He volunteers as an emergency counselor and is a member of the Crisis Intervention Team (KIT Bonn) of the German Foreign Office. He is a private pilot, married, with two sons and three grandchildren.

In 2002, Trauboth wrote the now out of print standard work "Crisis Management for Company Threats".

In 2016 the follow-up work was published with Jörg H. Trauboth as editor in collaboration with five authors: "Crisis Management in Companies and Public Institutions".

Terror expert J. H. Trauboth presented his debut novel in 2015 with the Germany thriller "Three Brothers". (Available in English). In 2019 "Operation Jerusalem" followed and in 2020 "Omega". The trilogy is about the former elite soldier Marc Anderson and his team. With these three self-contained thrillers, Trauboth is rated by many readers as the "German Tom Clancy." The trilogy is available as a printed edition, eBook and audio book.

His first detective novel, "Jakobs Weg" (German), followed in 2021. The highly explosive topic of "sexual abuse of children" is processed sensitively in a scenario on the Way of Saint James and at the end offers contact options for those seeking help.

In 2022, the novella "Bonjour Saint-Ex" was published (German) in which the passionate pilot Jörg H. Trauboth turns the last flight of the legend Antoine de Saint Exupéry into an exciting literary event.

Readers wanted a sequel to the Marc Anderson series. In 2023, ZarenTod - Das Ende der Präsidenten was published, a highly topical political thriller. The Russian president and new tsar, Ivan Pavlenko, suddenly shows his true face during the war in Ukraine. He wants the old Soviet Union back. The world is on the brink. The influential oligarch, Alexei Sokolov, wants to prevent Ivan's megalomaniac plans and is planning a fundamental new beginning for Russia. To achieve this, the Russian president must be removed. But the plan goes awry. Ex-elite soldier Marc Anderson intervenes. Will Czar Ivan die? What will become of Europe? The book 8/ 2024 in English „The Death of the Kremlin Czar" is the fourth political thriller in the Marc Anderson series.

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📖Authors To Watch: Thomas White, Author of THE EDISON ENIGMA #authorstowatch #interview

 

 

Thomas White began his career as an actor. Several years later he found himself as an Artistic Director for a theatre in Los Angeles and the winner of several Drama-Logue and Critics awards for directing. As Tom’s career grew, he directed and co-produced the world tour of “The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out Of Their Shells”. The show toured for over two years, was translated into seven different languages and seen by close to a million children. Tom served as President and Creative Director for Maiden Lane Entertainment for 24 years and worked on many large-scale corporate event productions that included Harley Davidson, Microsoft, Medtronic Diabetes, and dozens of others. The Edison Enigma is Tom’s third novel following up Justice Rules which was nominated as a finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association 2010 Literary contest, and The Siren’s Scream.

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What was the hardest plot point or character to write in your latest book, The Edison Enigma?

   The hardest plot point for me in The Edison Enigma was installing the intrigue and danger once he arrived in 1904. In reality, if I were him, I would have kept my head down, not talked to anyone, and accomplished my task, which would make for a very boring novel. But for Tom, fate intervenes and he becomes entangled with several major players as well as getting involved in some very dangerous situations. Clarifying those situations in a realistic manner was very time consuming and difficult. 

What is your favorite part of The Edison Enigma?

Honestly, the epilogue. I love to know what happens to characters once the story ends. The Edison Enigma gave me an excellent opportunity to close out Tom’s journey and deliver it to the reader in a nice big red bow. I also find this ending very touching in a heart tugging way.

If you could change one thing about any of your books, what would it be?

I would have had a real publisher and not have to self-publish. The marketing elements of self-publishing are exhausting. Not that I don’t LOVE to be doing these virtual book tours, I really do, but a little professional marketing expertise would have been very welcome.

What is a snack you couldn't write without?

Lastly, and I do mean late at night, I find myself slipping away and driving to the local Circle K for some Snickers ice cream. I do a lot of thinking at night, when I am not actually writing, and it helps me to concentrate. For me there is writing, and there is thinking about writing. I continually ask myself where is the flaw, the paradox, the overlooked character and how do I rectify that situation. Tasting that creamy caramel and crunchy nugget helps me with that process. Of course, I have to limit myself to twice a week, my jeans are getting a bit tight. 

What's the first thing – ever – that you remember writing?

LOL! I was in high school and had been dumped by my girl friend. I set about to write the saddest romance novel ever written. I remember the opening line actually, “This is a story about heart break, hopelessness and pain so break out the gin and prepare yourself for the journey.” I don’t think I could have been more self serving if I had tried. I also think it was odd that I made a reference to drinking gin, which at the time, I had never done. 

If there was one thing about your writing life that you wish you could change, what would that be?

I’ve really come to enjoy writing. I have been asked what is my greatest motivation to write and the answer is always the same, boredom. When I get bored I have to fill my time with something constructive and that’s when I sit down and putter at the keyboard. However, at this juncture, I have published two books in the last two years and I have the next one percolating in my brain. So, the one thing I would change, is for my writing to become a life sustaining activity. I have several friend who are all pro writers and that is how they make their living. I view my stuff on par with theirs, I just haven’t gotten that break yet. And if I never do, well, there is a great amount of satisfaction in producing a novel and I take great pride in what I have done.

 

Edison, a Chicago physicist, manages to successfully transport an object through time. Almost immediately following this success Dr. Edison is shut out of the facility and told by benefactor Raphael Barrington, to take a vacation. He is contacted by Don Rivendell, a grizzled old man with a secret. Rivendell explains to Tom that he is not the first person to discover time travel. Someone else went back and changed history by saving a young girl from dying in an internal combustion engine explosion.

Dr. Edison is tasked with going back and fixing history. He travels back to 1904 to find the younger version of Rivendell and stop him from saving the girl. 

You can purchase your copy of The Edison Enigma at Amazon at https://t.ly/_NOoo.