Jessica Lloyd
The Thin Wall: A POW/MIA Truth Novel
The Thin Wall: A POW/MIA Truth Novel
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An unforgettable story of love and war, and of two men and a woman - a cursed cellist, a tyrant KGB officer, and a troubled war hero - who come together during the early days of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. At the heart of this spellbinding thriller: proof U.S. servicemen were taken from the battlefields of Vietnam and sent to the Soviet Union.
Midnight,
August 20, 1968: the sirens of Prague are sounding. Without warning, Russian tanks have crossed the frontier and are pouring into the city. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia has begun.
Arriving with the troops is Colonel Grigori Dal,
a seasoned KGB officer and coldblooded killer. While the country slips into chaos, Dal uses the fighting as cover to apprehend an American Prisoner of War from a military prison.
On the other side of the country, in a remote mountain village,
a pacifist community wakes up to the troubling news. Czechoslovakia is an occupied country. The citizens hold an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis.
Twenty-five years ago, they recall with horror, the Nazis tormented them -- now this!
Is history on the verge of repeating itself?
Within days,
Dal and a handful of soldiers are on their doorsteps with plans to conduct a murder. He will stop at nothing to get what he wants -- including a local woman,
rumored to be cursed.
At the same time, Dal must hide an American prisoner of war, including secret documents that prove U.S. servicemen were sent to the Soviet Union. Will he succeed? In the end, only the cursed woman and the troubled war hero, both haunted by their tragic love affair, stand in his way.
With historical detail, The Thin Wall shows how some people become victims of tyranny, while others risk their lives -- and love -- for freedom. Importantly, it also asks the question: did all of our military servicemen come home?
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