Singed By The Sun: Action-packed Cold War Thriller - Book 2 (Chasing The Sun)

After a daring escape from East Germany, Wolf Richter, a young electronics engineer, finds out quickly that his ‘new country’ treats him with utmost suspicion. West German security squeezes him dry, he can’t find a job, and two words are constantly thrown in his face - von drueben!

Jessica, the curvaceous Bavarian medical student, took a swig of Vodka tonic and said with a twinkle in her expressive brown eyes, “Wolf, how long have you known Horst? Are you also … von drueben?”
By now Wolf knew these two words had a strictly negative meaning in the West. They meant an escapee, most likely with little financial resources. But he wanted to be truthful. “Yes, I’m von drueben. We both studied at Rostock University.”
She looked at his cheap Russian wrist-watch. Pivoting on her bar stool, she said flippantly, “Well, all the best to you in the West.”

But then, after calling a mysterious uncle, Jessica sweetly invites him for a walk in a Hamburg park. Wolf encounters a man who threatens him with a silenced pistol. He’s kidnapped and finds himself on a sailboat on the Elbe River. His life in the West spins like a roller coaster. Running from Hamburg to Frankfurt, Wolf encounters American intelligence operatives; in West Berlin he deals with shady Fluchthelfer - people who organize escapes from the East – all the while he’s being hunted by a Stasi assassination squad. Will he outwit the killers and find a way to the country he’s dreaming of?
Singed By The Sun, the sequel to the novel Chasing The Sun, is a pulse-pounding action thriller from the Cold War – a gripping tale of the trials of a man alone in an unfamiliar world, running from spies and assassins.