Against the backdrop of wartime Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Payback for Revenge is a literary suspense saga of a passionate love affair, the murder of a young girl, and the horror of an international prostitution slave ring. When a journalist, Chantal, leaves her opulent environment in New York to help her lover, Jovan, hunt down the murderers of his daughter, the couple enters a dark and dangerous world of war and crime. In reality, more than 300,000 Eastern European girls are smuggled to the West every year, doomed to the worst type of slavery and short, painful lives, to satisfy the insatiable appetites of rich countries for sex. Payback for Revenge tells the story of the workings of the biggest hub through which the girls are supplied, while the so-called "civilized world" looks the other way.

Payback for Revenge

Alex Markman

Literature & Fiction

Asteroid Publishing Inc

<p>Messenger of Death, a novel by Alex Markman, takes the reader into the frightening and fascinating world of bikers’ turf wars and encounters with the law. Inspired by gang wars in Quebec, Canada, in the late 1990s, Messenger of Death follows the lifestyle of the fictitious gangsters of two biker gangs, the Devil’s Knights and the Iron Ghosts. The Knights’ and the Ghosts’ illegal drug trade in a Canadian province expands to the point where they can’t co-exist. In the terrifying drama of violence that follows, police and the criminal courts are helpless to stop the war. Although penetration of the gang by an informant is impossible, when the police corner Knight’s hit man, Claude, he agrees to become a police informant. Spearheaded by a woman whose nephew was a victim of the bikers, the government adopts new laws, but victory over the gangs is short lived.</p>

Messenger of Death

Action & Adventure

Inspired by a true story, Contra-OSESSA is about the workings of superpowers secret services in Latin America in the 1960s. A team of KGB operatives in Argentina was hunting former Nazis who kept their money in Swiss banks. Under torture, the agents extorted from them their secret accounts numbers, money from which went to support the Communist movements in Latin America. The American spy network, eager to find the source of Communists funding, eventually traced the Soviets. Dealing primarily with the dichotomy of left and right in politically-unstable Argentina, the novel shifts back and forth between the lives of two young men: the Russian KGB officer, Robert, and the American CIA commander, Glenn. Both Robert and Glenn are posing as carefree residents of Buenos Aires while they work towards accomplishing their diametrically-opposing political agendas. As Robert and his team of undercover KGB operatives hunt down wealthy German holders of Swiss bank accounts, Glenn and his American spy network infiltrate Argentinean Communist rebel groups in order to discover the source of their funding. The pattern of mysterious disappearances of high-profile Germans in Buenos Aires attracts Glenn s attention, and when he traces the work to Robert s Soviet team, a harrowing and deeply consequential clash between the two spy networks, and former members of the SS organization, ODESSA, ensues. As the two separate narratives of Robert and Glenn converge together, their black and white politics simultaneously become muddled as their respective love affairs ripen under the hot Argentinean sun. Robert s infatuation with the older but nevertheless tremendously sexy wife of a former SS officer, Bertha, and Glenn s fling with the young and flirtatious local communist activist, Lolita, takes on a deeper meaning for them, far beyond being useful for their respective missions. The validity and morality of their activity and political causes come into question. An exhilarating, fast-paced read, Contra-ODESSA conveys the dramatic and inevitably tragic lives of people drawn into the superpowers geopolitical struggle for global dominance. The novel s plot is intense, but also aptly descriptive and thought-provoking as it invites you to examine the complexities of right and left political thought, the inner workings of the criminal mind, and the mysterious ways of love.

Contra-ODESSA

Asteroid Publishing

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Payback for Revenge

Messenger of Death

Contra-ODESSA