Hi Sgt. Dunn readers! I'm so pleased to reveal the title and description for the newest Sgt. Dunn novel (#14!). Credit for the title goes to my wonderful daughter-in-law, Jessica, who came up with it almost immediately after reading the description. By the way, my son, Nathan, and she welcomed their third child and second son, Jonas David Mackenzi, only six days ago.
I'm hoping to release it next month (February, perhaps week 3). You can track my editing progress in the upper left of this blog.
Risk and Valor
The Nazi regime controls some of the most innovative engineers in the world. Minister of Armaments Albert Speer oversees their projects, especially the top secret ones. The U.S. Eighth Air Force gets terrifying news about one of those projects: German rocket engineers have created the world’s first guided surface-to-air missile, Wasserfall, based on the V2 rocket. The devastating weapon could completely put a stop to daylight bombing raids at a critical point in the war. Master Sergeant Tom Dunn and his lethal squad of U.S. Army Rangers are tasked with destroying the missile complex in northern Germany, and all the missiles.
The British Army is conducting Operation Cobalt, the push from the Netherlands into Germany to clear out the Roer Triangle. To assist, Sergeant Major Malcolm Saunders and his squad of deadly Commandos, parachute behind German lines to wipe out reconnaissance airplanes at an airfield, blow up an ammo depot, and meet the advancing British 52nd Division where they’ll face brutal house-to-house fighting.
Meanwhile, Gertrude Dunn, Sergeant Dunn’s youngest sister, a student at The Farm, the training grounds for Office of Strategic Services (OSS) agents, is in her last days before graduation day. She must complete two difficult covert missions out in the normal world. If she’s caught by the police, she’ll be jailed. And the OSS would disavow her.
The Wasserfall missile complex is so large, nearly three and a half square miles, Dunn must take two more Ranger squads to destroy it. Almost immediately upon arrival, Dunn and the rest of the Rangers experience first-hand the old military saying: “no plan survives contact with the enemy.” Can Dunn react quickly enough and still complete the mission? And if so, at what cost?
Once again Munsterman superbly blends history and fiction in a page-turning action-packed story. In his fourteenth WWII action thriller, Risk and Valor, he reminds readers of war’s brutality and the courage certain men display to overcome it.
