The Making of Herman Faust

When the walls come tumbling down...

 

1988: For rookie officer Herman Faust, a routine, late night traffic stop turns into the apprehension of a high priority defector, one with ties to the Soviet bio-weapons program Obolensk. After bringing the woman and her brother in for questioning, the man disappears, and the woman is found inside her holding cell...dead. When the American CIA intervenes, Faust begins receiving anonymous calls threatening his family, and his own life. As clues come to light linking his superior to the dead woman, and to a Soviet plot to launch a biological weapon on the American Embassy, Faust knows he must risk all to stop the deadly pathogen from being released on innocent civilians. The stability of West Berlin is at risk, and if Faust fails to solve the case, it will be war! This is his story. This is the making of Herman Faust.



¿¿***A Page Turner Awards 2021 & 2022 Shortlist Finalist for the Book Award and Screenplay (Book Adaptation Needed) categories.



Review: "Where the Checkpoint Series All Began...In this prequel to her Checkpoint, Berlin Detective Series, Michele E. Gwynn has spun a heart-pounding tale of Cold War intrigue...artfully recalling a darker age of Russian agents and secret plots that, until recently, we thought was gone forever with the fall of the Berlin Wall. I loved the suspense, the intrigue and the way Gwynn builds the relationships between Faust, his wife and the stalwart Joseph Heinz, and I heartily recommend it to any fan of police stories and Cold War spy novels." ~ Aurora Dawn