• Lester Taube
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• About the Author
  Lester Taube was born of Russian and Lithuanian immigrants in Trenton, NJ.  He began soldiering in his teens in a horse artillery regiment, where in four years he rose in grade from private to the exalted rank of private first class.  In World War II, he became an officer in the infantry.  His first operation was on the Bismarck Archipelago where his most dangerous opponents were sand fleas and malaria.  His regiment was next attached to the 3rd Marine Division for the Iwo Jima operation, then he and 18 other soft-headed volunteers fought on Okinawa, the last battle of the war.  Recuperating from wounds and malaria, he left the army to run a 400 employee electronic company in California, a 450 employee paper stock company in Pennsylvania, then moved to Canada to open a logging and pulpwood cutting operation.  Recalled to the service during the Korean police action, he served as an advisor to the Turkish army, and as an intelligence officer and company commander in Korea.

  During the Vietnam period, he went on duty in France and Germany as a general staff officer working in intelligence and war plans, and even a stint as Chief of Operations of the U.S. Army in Europe. While in France  he opened a chain of coin operated laundries, which became the largest in Europe.  Prior to retirement as a full colonel, he moved to a small village in Austria, and kept a boat for five years on the Côté d’Azur.

  During this period in Europe, , he wrote four fiction novels, which were published in hardcover by W.H. Allen of London ,  paperbacks were published by a subsidiary, and rights were sold to a number of foreign countries.  All four novels were optioned for motion pictures and two were sold.

  He stopped writing because of his time consuming jobs and the raising of a family.  He has four children, all born in different countries.

  After 13 years in Europe, he returned home, where he worked as an economic development specialist for the State of New Jersey until his final retirement.

• Books
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• Atonement for Iwo
  FICTION | WWII
  During World War II, Keith Masters, an infantry officer, engages four Japanese in a cave on Iwo Jima, killing three outright. The fourth, a sergeant, is mortally wounded, but is finished off by one of Masters' men.
  
  Twenty years later, Masters, a bitter failure with work and family, suffers a heart attack, and develops the fixation that his misfortunes are due to being responsible for the murder of the Japanese sergeant. He goes to Japan to seek the family of the dead man, to help them overcome their loss, and becomes involved with the sergeant's wife, Kimiko, a former prostitute, who has become one of the wealthiest women in the country. Her beautiful, modern minded daughter, Hiroko, offers herself to keep Masters away from her mother. Worst of all, Kimiko's son, Ichiro, is awaiting execution for the assassination of a politician.
  
  Now Masters has an opportunity to atone for his sin.
• $14.95 | ISBN: 1-59453-382-2
  
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• The Cossack Cowboy
  FICTION | WESTERN
  Can a Cossack conquer the West?
  
  Paul, a thoroughgoing young Victorian gentleman, is having a high old time with a regiment of Don
  Cossacks, fighting, raping, and pillaging in the time-honored manner,  when he is recalled to
  England to inherit a dukedom.  A problem arises when he is left with only some property in the
  Territory of New Mexico, where the old Duke had bought the Three Barbs Ranch as an investment.
  
  Unfortunately, Paul is not the only person interested in that particular piece of real estate,
  and he soon finds that a land-hungry railroad tycoon plans to obtain it by having him killed.
  
  What happens when Paul tangles with the half-breed daughter of his would-be assassin on a
  wolf-invested mountain starts a chain of horrific events that will keep the reader on the edge right
  to the startling climax.
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• The Grabbers
  FICTION | THRILLER
  A diamond theft thriller?
  
  Dan Baldwin, an ex-colonel whose life has crashed, is rescued from a gutter in North Africa and finds himself elected at gunpoint to the company of a purposeful trio about to raid the secret diamond field of a relentless south-west African cartel.  He contrives to locate the diamonds, and, for his pains, is left for dead by the gang's treacherous leader, who has conspired to secure the entire illicit haul for himself.
  
  The furious climax is reached in London, where Dan, after a tempestuous clash and torrid love affair with the beautiful, blonde Ingrid Talaanger, daughter of the diamond cartel's head, discovers
  that for all his violence and cynicism, he can again love a woman devotedly and be changed by her.
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• Myer for Hire
  FICTION | SATIRE
  A hilarious satire that fills each page with laughter.
  
  Myer Ronis is a short, fat, law-abiding citizen, a lover of poetry and good conversation, a man of
  duty who respects his sister and is polite to his brother-in-law, and loves his mother. Can this
  same Myer Ronis be a hired killer, the merciless butcher of untold victims?  Can Myer Ronis be the
  Assassin?
  
  The Assassin travels to Los Angeles to make a hit - in other words, to fill some person with lead
  jujubes.  But the West Coast mob  learns he is coming and tries to stop him.  They send Bogar,
  who eliminates people just for pleasure, but the Assassin turns him into goulash. They send a
  helicopter with twenty gunmen and thirty-four cases of nitroglycerin, but, after the bang, there is
  no 'copter or gunman.
  
  On the train, he meets Harry Bella, a clothing manufacturer, who has a spinster daughter,
  named Tillie.  Myer gets an offer he can't refuse.
  
  But the mob has not given up.  They send sixty top guns to meet him in Los Angeles, but somehow he walks right through them.
  
  Can a good boy like Myer Ronis be the Assassin? And if he isn't, who is?
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• Peter Krimsov
  FICTION | SPY THRILLER
  An intense and suspenseful spy adventure.
  
  Peter Krimsov, a young and highly trained secret agent of his Kremlin's masters, is something special in cloak-and-dagger characters.  Ruthless and deadly, both as a lover and a man-hunter, he accepts the world as his espionage oyster, and in this mission to find a traitor who tried to make a deal with the Germans investing Stalingrad, he changes roles several times, in two hemispheres, kills and makes love with equal cruelty, all to secure a name that will unlock the past and bring both discovery and retribution to a secret traitor. For as part of the Russo -Nazi deal, a Soviet village was bull-dozed into the steppes, and one of the victims was Krimsov's wife and unborn child.
  
  Her memory never ceases haunting him, and the Kremlin's secret orders becomes a personal
  vengeance.  Yet his own fate subjects him to a final devastating irony, for Peter Krimsov learns he, too, must pay a price for the terrible past to which he has so long been hostage himself.
  
  This powerfully conceived story of a man and a mission must succeed, because failure is inconceivable.
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