1960s Sitcom Soldiers in a Life-and-death WWII Battle - And theres Nothing Funny about it

BookSurge proudly announces the publication of New Beginnings by Laverne Cash

Bel Air, MD (PRWEB) April 29, 2005 -- BookSurge Publishing announces the publication of New Beginnings by Laverne Cash.

What happens when the characters from the sitcom Hogans Heroes are thrown into a situation where biological warfare is threatened and their beloved leader is being tortured to death?

It is World War II and both the Axis and the Allied powers believe the other to be advanced in biological warfare. Need-to-know prevails on both sides.

Colonel Alistair Wembley, an operative for British Secret Intelligence Service, and his OSS counterpart, Mike Anders, read a cryptic message from one of the British agents: the Germans are threatening biological warfare. After considerable debate, they send in Colonel Robert Hogan -- code name: Goldilocks -- to unearth the truth.

The British agent is a traitor and Hogan is captured and interrogated by Gestapo agent Emil Gottfried, a psychopath and sadist. If Hogan is not rescued, he will not survive imprisonment.

German-American agent Mike Anders volunteers to parachute into Germany and save Hogan. Anders enlists the aid of Kurt Schell, an underground physician and an expert on tetrodotoxin, a poison that alters respiratory and cardiac functions. Those administered tetrodotoxin appear to be dead, but no one knows exactly what dosage is too much. Can Anders be trusted?

New Beginnings explores the enigma of war, of what happens when those we trust may be the enemy and those we fear may actually be our friends. And it asks the question: When those in power make decisions, can they differentiate between right and wrong?

About the Author
LaVerne Cash is a physicist who earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from John Hopkins University. Employed by the Department of the Arm for 20 years, Cashs expertise ranges from the evaluation of weapon systems to chemical and biological defense. A member of the church choir, her churchs annual Living Christmas Tree" gave her the idea for this novels subplot.

New Beginnings is LaVerne Cashs first novel.
New Beginnings is available for sale through BookSurge.com, Amazon.com, Books in Print and Global Books in Print. For more information, please contact the author by email at lavernecash@yahoo.com or by phone at 1.410.838.4305.

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