A Journey of Honor (Jack Stewart Trilogy Book 2)
Book Details
Author(s)John F. Schork
PublisherJupiter Pixel Company
ISBN / ASINB0040ZN0BM
ISBN-13978B0040ZN0B8
Sales Rank515,796
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
A Journey of Honor
The second novel in the Jack Stewart Trilogy finds Jack back in England after rescuing Erich Von Wollner, Hitler’s Executive Assistant, and England’s most highly placed secret agent. Furious with the lapse in security, Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, orders Colonel Karl Dietrich, a legend in the SS and holder of the Knight’s Cross to find and kill the traitor.
A chance encounter with a double agent whom he known from the past pushes Dietrich to confront his building revulsion with the Nazis. After much soul searching he arrives at a personal decision to abort his mission and turn himself into the British.
Stewart stumbles upon a possible German plan to be implemented if the war is going to be lost. The plan involves using the V-2 rocket system with Sarin nerve gas. The primary target is London, estimates of casualties run to the tens of thousands. Using code breakers at Bletchley Park, Jack and his team determine there is an active plan named the Valkyrie Contingency.
The intelligence analysts are able to locate the facility where the Sarin will be mated with the warheads. Stewart decides to approach Dietrich to enlist his help on the mission. The two parachute into Eastern Germany and join with a group of Polish partisans.
A mission is mounted by RAF Bomber Command to destroy the facility. With the mission in the air, the train delivering the Sarin is delayed on a siding outside the camp. Jack and Karl board the train and are able to drive it into the blazing inferno started by incendiary bombs. Karl, severely injured during this action, is carried by the Polish partisans to the escape point. They manage to avoid the German forces which are searching for them and make it to a secluded valley. The Germans do finally stumble on them and following a fierce firefight, the commandos are able to get on a Hudson bomber and escape to England.
In London, the decision has been made at the highest level (Churchill) that a new organization will be formed as part of the preparation for the post war world. Jack and his diverse group of commandos are selected to be the initial cadre of this undercover organization. They are to use their skills in clandestine operations and blend that with the growing world of technical intelligence gathering. The intent is for them to be ready to handle the ‘dirty jobs’ which everyone knows will await a world trying to sort out national interests. A secluded country manor house becomes the headquarters for this new elite organization.
Jack blends the team into a deadly and effective weapon for both Britain and the West. This group of British, American, German and Polish men and women allow nationalities to blur as they fight for what they know is right. This becomes the prototype of MI-6’s ‘Double Oh’ organization.
The new organization’s first major coup is linking up with a shadow group that exists within the German military intelligence services. This group, called “The Network,†is led by Reinhard Gehlen, a senior German intelligence officer and future head of West German Intelligence. The Network’s purpose is to protect and position Germany vs the Soviet Union after the war.
Both the Allies and the Soviet Union are aware of a group of physicists that have been pursuing Germany’s alternate atomic weapon project. In an attempt to bring these scientists and their research under their control, MI-6 and the Soviet secret police launch operations to secure the group. Jack’s team goes head to head with a Soviet NKVD major and elite team of Russians and German defectors.
Only one team can triumph for the future of Europe and perhaps the world.
The second novel in the Jack Stewart Trilogy finds Jack back in England after rescuing Erich Von Wollner, Hitler’s Executive Assistant, and England’s most highly placed secret agent. Furious with the lapse in security, Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, orders Colonel Karl Dietrich, a legend in the SS and holder of the Knight’s Cross to find and kill the traitor.
A chance encounter with a double agent whom he known from the past pushes Dietrich to confront his building revulsion with the Nazis. After much soul searching he arrives at a personal decision to abort his mission and turn himself into the British.
Stewart stumbles upon a possible German plan to be implemented if the war is going to be lost. The plan involves using the V-2 rocket system with Sarin nerve gas. The primary target is London, estimates of casualties run to the tens of thousands. Using code breakers at Bletchley Park, Jack and his team determine there is an active plan named the Valkyrie Contingency.
The intelligence analysts are able to locate the facility where the Sarin will be mated with the warheads. Stewart decides to approach Dietrich to enlist his help on the mission. The two parachute into Eastern Germany and join with a group of Polish partisans.
A mission is mounted by RAF Bomber Command to destroy the facility. With the mission in the air, the train delivering the Sarin is delayed on a siding outside the camp. Jack and Karl board the train and are able to drive it into the blazing inferno started by incendiary bombs. Karl, severely injured during this action, is carried by the Polish partisans to the escape point. They manage to avoid the German forces which are searching for them and make it to a secluded valley. The Germans do finally stumble on them and following a fierce firefight, the commandos are able to get on a Hudson bomber and escape to England.
In London, the decision has been made at the highest level (Churchill) that a new organization will be formed as part of the preparation for the post war world. Jack and his diverse group of commandos are selected to be the initial cadre of this undercover organization. They are to use their skills in clandestine operations and blend that with the growing world of technical intelligence gathering. The intent is for them to be ready to handle the ‘dirty jobs’ which everyone knows will await a world trying to sort out national interests. A secluded country manor house becomes the headquarters for this new elite organization.
Jack blends the team into a deadly and effective weapon for both Britain and the West. This group of British, American, German and Polish men and women allow nationalities to blur as they fight for what they know is right. This becomes the prototype of MI-6’s ‘Double Oh’ organization.
The new organization’s first major coup is linking up with a shadow group that exists within the German military intelligence services. This group, called “The Network,†is led by Reinhard Gehlen, a senior German intelligence officer and future head of West German Intelligence. The Network’s purpose is to protect and position Germany vs the Soviet Union after the war.
Both the Allies and the Soviet Union are aware of a group of physicists that have been pursuing Germany’s alternate atomic weapon project. In an attempt to bring these scientists and their research under their control, MI-6 and the Soviet secret police launch operations to secure the group. Jack’s team goes head to head with a Soviet NKVD major and elite team of Russians and German defectors.
Only one team can triumph for the future of Europe and perhaps the world.
