The Inspiration Behind The Death of the Kremlin Czar
By Jorg H. Trauboth
I had a dream. Russian troops were standing in front of Berlin and
declaring that Germany was now Russian. We were to surrender and look
forward to a life in communism and with the ruble. I woke up and
realized that I wasn’t living in 1945, but 80 years later.
Exactly
this has happened to Ukraine. For nearly three years, the country has
been desperately fighting for its survival. It wants to reclaim its lost
territories and peace. Like all of us.
As someone who knows Putin's biography and as a former general staff
officer in NATO, I am convinced that there can be no negotiations with
the Russian president. And if Ukraine gives up the territories because
it runs out of weapons and ammunition, we in Central Europe will be
next. Then my bad dream could come true.
“If a solution cannot be found on the battlefield, there must be another way to find one,” I thought.
I am also convinced that reality writes the best stories. You just have to recognize them.
So, I began to develop a plot for my fourth Marc Anderson thriller:
A group of oligarchs led by Alexei Sokolov wants to overthrow Russian
President Ivan in Moscow. Just as Brutus and the senators did with
Julius Caesar in Rome on the Ides of March. Modern history shows that it
is difficult to overthrow a dictator by force. So, I gave Alexei a
tough task, as he only had this one chance. And he is even preparing it
with the support of the CIA, and with the knowledge of the US President,
who of course knows nothing about it.
The plan is clever, but Alexei has a problem. He is having an affair
with Yulia, the partner of the Russian President. Both are under
pressure, as Ivan knows something.
On the flight to Moscow via Vilnius in Belarus, the plane with Alexei
and Yulia on board is hijacked. The Ukrainian hijacker demands that his
brother be released from Russian captivity. When the Russian President
refuses, the plane begins an odyssey over Europe. The hijacker shoots
the crew. The plane is without pilots and is programmed to crash into
the Berlin Reichstag. The German government considers shooting down the
passenger plane, which is legally forbidden. Crisis management between
Berlin, Kyiv, and Washington is under enormous time pressure, as the
plane is running out of fuel. The Czar in Moscow is silent. The former
elite soldier Marc Anderson and his family are also on board. They are
invited to a wedding celebration in Vilnius. Marc's wife, Jelke, pleads
with her husband, a hobby pilot, to save them all. He and Alexei go into
the cockpit and try to take control of the ailing Boeing 737-300 in the
night sky.
Will they manage to fly and to land the plane? And how will the plan to bring down Ivan unfold?
At this point, I have to stop. But you can be sure. The ending is
spectacular. By page 180 at the latest, you’ll want to know. Otherwise,
you won’t be able to relax. At least, that’s what the readers of the
German novel say.
Enjoy!
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Jörg
H. Trauboth, born in 1943 near Berlin, logged over two thousand flight
hours as a Weapon Systems Officer Instructor in the Luftwaffe, flying
PHANTOM F-4F / RF-4E and TORNADO fighter jets, and over 3000 hours in
light aircraft. At the age of fifty, he left the service with the rank
of Colonel in the General Staff. He received training as a Special Risk
Consultant from the English Control Risk Group and served as Managing
Director Germany, dealing with extortion and kidnapping cases in South
America and Eastern Europe. Shortly thereafter, he founded his own
consulting firm, quickly establishing an outstanding international
reputation. Trauboth protected his clients with a 24-hour task force
during product extortions, product recalls, kidnappings, and image
crises. He was the first President of the European Crisis Management
Academy in Vienna and President of the American Yankee Association.
He
is known as a respected expert in the media on security-related topics.
He volunteers as an emergency counselor and is a member of the Crisis
Intervention Team (KIT Bonn) of the German Foreign Office. He is a
private pilot, married, with two sons and three grandchildren.
In 2002, Trauboth wrote the now out of print standard work “Crisis Management for Company Threats”.
In
2016 the follow-up work was published with Jörg H. Trauboth as editor
in collaboration with five authors: “Crisis Management in Companies and
Public Institutions”.
Terror
expert J. H. Trauboth presented his debut novel in 2015 with the
Germany thriller “Three Brothers”. (Available in English). In 2019
“Operation Jerusalem” followed and in 2020 “Omega”. The trilogy is about
the former elite soldier Marc Anderson and his team. With these three
self-contained thrillers, Trauboth is rated by many readers as the
“German Tom Clancy.” The trilogy is available as a printed edition,
eBook and audio book.
His
first detective novel, “Jakobs Weg” (German), followed in 2021. The
highly explosive topic of “sexual abuse of children” is processed
sensitively in a scenario on the Way of Saint James and at the end
offers contact options for those seeking help.
In
2022, the novella “Bonjour Saint-Ex” was published (German) in which
the passionate pilot Jörg H. Trauboth turns the last flight of the
legend Antoine de Saint Exupéry into an exciting literary event.
Readers
wanted a sequel to the Marc Anderson series. In 2023, ZarenTod – Das
Ende der Präsidenten was published, a highly topical political thriller.
The Russian president and new tsar, Ivan Pavlenko, suddenly shows his
true face during the war in Ukraine. He wants the old Soviet Union back.
The world is on the brink. The influential oligarch, Alexei Sokolov,
wants to prevent Ivan’s megalomaniac plans and is planning a fundamental
new beginning for Russia. To achieve this, the Russian president must
be removed. But the plan goes awry. Ex-elite soldier Marc Anderson
intervenes. Will Czar Ivan die? What will become of Europe? The book 8/
2024 in English „The Death of the Kremlin Czar” is the fourth political
thriller in the Marc Anderson series.
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