Chameleon: The Terror Begins

In this, the Second novel in the Chameleon Trilogy, 1933-1937 Kurt Eichhorn continues his quest to destroy the Nazis. Nobody suspects Kurt as being the mysterious marksman during the “Bavarian Affair, CHAMELEON”, and with everyone involved apart from Kurt being dead, his identity remains safe. But Kurt has become a killer now, and after executing Meister in revenge for murdering Hauptmann Wagner, he becomes a fully committed member of the “Von Hagendorf Orchestra,” avowed to Ridding Germany of Hitler by legal means or fowl, he’s now a man who lives by the law of the gun, choosing Gestapo sadists to kill in his spare time, while in his day job, he is one of the Abwehr’s brightest counterespionage agents, hot on the heels of Russian NKVD spy ring.Meanwhile, Hitler is summoned to von Hindenburg’s country estate and ordered to either curtail Ernst Röhm and the SA, or he will be sacked as chancellor and replaced by a military panel, Hitler must choose between power and killing a friend… As the infamous Night of the Long Knives unfurls, Kurt is deep in treason and retribution, as well as dealing with his personal secrets and demons, and grief for his lover Xavier, (book one, “CHAMELEON”) murdered by the Nazis. Unbeknown to Kurt, Hauptmann Wagner’s happy-go-lucky son Richard has been denounced as a homosexual and is arrested by the Gestapo. After months of torture and abuse in a Gestapo prison, Richard is sent to the infamous Dachau Concentration Camp, where Hell meets reality, and for many harrowing months, he must endure the unendurable; orgies of violence and inhumanity, breaking him body and soul; weak, hungry and systematically brutalized, all hope has gone and only despair remains. Richard knows he’s just weeks from death.Back in Berlin, Kurt learns through a surprising informant, that his old Hauptmann’s son is in Dachau, and with an audacious plan, he resolves to rescue him before it’s too late…Untersturmführer Victor Graf von Ritter might be termed a reluctant Nazi, blackmailed by his fanatical father into joining the SS as one of Himmler’s “bluebloods” to enhance the SS’ prestige as a knightly order. If Richard refused, his father would cut him off and expose him as a homosexual after Victor was expelled from Mürwik Naval Academy for an indiscretion.Reluctant or not, Victor’s young, good-looking and ambitious and he has a policeman’s mind too, which soon gets him noticed. Victor is summoned to Berlin to be part of an investigation into the theft of a Gestapo list and forged identity papers. The investigation soon spirals into something far more sinister than the Communist or Jewish underground, when witnesses start being murdered, and military intelligence reports on the Soviet Union are found in the luggage of a courier shot dead by Gestapo at the German-Austrian border…On his return to Berlin from Dachau, Kurt is informed of the border shooting and the War Ministry plans that have been found, and is ordered to liaise with Untersturmführer Graf von Ritter of the SD.When Kurt and Victor meet at a murder scene, they’re both horrified, realising they had met once before, the previous year in more, intimate circumstances…But can they put aside their personal feelings to work together and identify the sinister foreign power or organisation behind the forgeries and halt an atrocity they’re planning at the Nuremberg Rally? Can Kurt put duty and country before his desire to see Hitler and his cronies dead…?“I was captivated by this story from the first sentence to the last word…” (Online Book Club)"Chameleon: The Terror Begins is an incredible novel, filled with suspense, action" (Readers Favorite) Read more