{"product_id":"2940158403996","title":"Vengeance Knows No Boundaries","description":"This is the story that started during the much forgotten invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, by the then Russian communist regime. An invasion because the integrity of communism in that country was being threatened by the then president. Dubcek. The invasion force was a combination of troops and machinery from all the com econ countries that advanced en mass to plug the impending hole in the then Iron Curtain.\u003cbr\u003eOne man in particular called Mirac Valente managed to escape the invasion and purely by accident had to literally fight his way out of Prague ending up in Europe but not a Europe as it is today an infant Europe that had yet to grow into the force it is today both politically and economically.\u003cbr\u003eBorn and brought up in the East he adapted to his new life in the West although probably not the way he would have anticipated had he defected by the regular way.\u003cbr\u003eIn later years he was exposed to the corruption of the West as were his fellow ex Iron Curtain colleagues once the Berlin Wall came down, which exposed to the West the conditions these people were living in and the amount of power each countries State secret police wielded over them. One in particular the East German State Police - Stasi – which even had its own university to teach its members to spy on their fellow citizens and in some cases families, not knowing that, some of their relations were members and as such were reporting them to the authorities for minuscule \"crimes\" against the State. \u003cbr\u003eSome people simply disappeared others were imprisoned for years sometimes for the rest of their lives.....","brand":"Doug Michael","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075493937392,"sku":"2940158403996","price":3.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158403996_p0.jpg?v=1764112452","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158403996","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}