The Proxy Assassin (Spy Thriller)
By John Koerle
ISBN #978-0982090398
Price $15.00
270 Pages
Rating 5-Stars
“A Slam Bang Finish.”
Former OSS agent Hal Schroeder is
back: it’s 1948, and Hal is asked by his CIA contact, Frank Wiser to take on
another assignment. This time he parachutes into the Carpathian Mountains in
Central Romania to meet up with a group of anti-Communist guerillas, led by
Captain Sorin Dragomir. Complicated twists and turns lead to capture, then an
odd escape with the help of Princess Stela Varadja. More twists and turns as
Schroeder learns that Dragomir is holding Stela’s child, a three-year old boy,
the descendent of Vlad Tepes Draculea, and Dragomir’s hope for the future ruler
of Romania.
Several plots crisscross in this
tale, with throwbacks to the first two stories in this book trilogy, but
everything ties together at the end. Throughout the adventure, Schroeder comes
close to death many times, and with foreknowledge that this would be the final
story featuring Hal Schroeder, I half expected to see his death in a final
confrontation with Russian spies.
This has been a fascinating series,
and all three stories were great reads. I felt the first story, “A Pure Double
Cross,” had the best twist in any story I’ve read since O. Henry, and the
sequels were hard-pressed to surpass it, but somehow they succeeded in keeping
the series fresh and unique to the spy genre. Readers who expect great action
and story telling will find it in the Hal Schroeder novels by John Koerle. A
fascinating series to the end.
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