Summer Storm - Prelude to Pearl Harbor is a good old-fashioned World War II spy thriller.Starting in a rather unlikely place: a hot, gymnasium on Memorial Weekend, 1939, Summer Storm is the story of two opposites: Randy Roberts, placekicker on the local high school football team, devout Episcopalian and gay; Dexter Dannenberg, son of a Jewish haberdashery owner in Omaha, graduate of Creighton University in Classical Greek and gay.
During the course of this book each one of these young men will experience the horrors of war first hand.
Dannenberg breaks off his relationship with Roberts so he can go to work for William L. Shirer, of the Berlin news bureau of CBS --- or so he thinks. What he's about to get involved is an odyssey that will rival that of Odysseus in the Iliad. Instead of fighting cyclopes, he will have to use his wits to outsmart one of the Nazis cruelest officers --- who hunts down homosexuals with pleasure, even though he is gay himself.
In what can only be described as an absolutely crazy passage from Omaha to Berlin, "Agent" Dannenberg gets involved with a another young man named Thomek Lodz -- who is handy with a switchblade and doesn't mind using it to slit the throats of any Nazi who crosses his path.
They eventually make their way to Berlin and meet someone from Dannenberg's past who he both despises and admires. Events being what they are, the three of them have to get out of Germany before the war starts.
A harrowing escape follows.
Back in Iowa, Roberts is about to get married. His best man suspects that he's gay and doesn't mind spreading his beliefs around the town of Villisca - a small hamlet in the southeast corner of Iowa.
In a whirlwind chain of events, Roberts and his wife, Sharon end up in Pearl Harbor on "The Day of Infamy" with events that quickly spin out of control.
Gerda Weissmann Klein, subject of 1995 Academy Awards winner, Best Documentary (Short), One Survivor Remembers, said the following about Frazee's book:
"In SUMMER STORM, Paul Michael Frazee has set himself the daunting task of giving us a panoramic view of the events leading up to WWII...Its thrilling action, its surprise twists and turns of the plot are meticulously researched...
Through the motivations of its main characters, we encounter compassionate depictions of various aspects of love, and their corollary, hatred and violence, made plausible by the urgency of stemming the Nazi's intolerable acts of barbarism. In the course of these sweeping events, which are charged with the high drama dictated by those crucial times, we encounter many prominent personalities of that tense era of the thirties and forties.
More than that, the story is skillfully brought down to the level of individuals who lived and suffered through those defining moments of the the Twentieth Century. It's spine-tingling tales of intrigue, of espionage and counter-espionage make this a must read!"
With the majority of the action taking place in Berlin during the weeks before hostilities,
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During the course of this book each one of these young men will experience the horrors of war first hand.
Dannenberg breaks off his relationship with Roberts so he can go to work for William L. Shirer, of the Berlin news bureau of CBS --- or so he thinks. What he's about to get involved is an odyssey that will rival that of Odysseus in the Iliad. Instead of fighting cyclopes, he will have to use his wits to outsmart one of the Nazis cruelest officers --- who hunts down homosexuals with pleasure, even though he is gay himself.
In what can only be described as an absolutely crazy passage from Omaha to Berlin, "Agent" Dannenberg gets involved with a another young man named Thomek Lodz -- who is handy with a switchblade and doesn't mind using it to slit the throats of any Nazi who crosses his path.
They eventually make their way to Berlin and meet someone from Dannenberg's past who he both despises and admires. Events being what they are, the three of them have to get out of Germany before the war starts.
A harrowing escape follows.
Back in Iowa, Roberts is about to get married. His best man suspects that he's gay and doesn't mind spreading his beliefs around the town of Villisca - a small hamlet in the southeast corner of Iowa.
In a whirlwind chain of events, Roberts and his wife, Sharon end up in Pearl Harbor on "The Day of Infamy" with events that quickly spin out of control.
Gerda Weissmann Klein, subject of 1995 Academy Awards winner, Best Documentary (Short), One Survivor Remembers, said the following about Frazee's book:
"In SUMMER STORM, Paul Michael Frazee has set himself the daunting task of giving us a panoramic view of the events leading up to WWII...Its thrilling action, its surprise twists and turns of the plot are meticulously researched...
Through the motivations of its main characters, we encounter compassionate depictions of various aspects of love, and their corollary, hatred and violence, made plausible by the urgency of stemming the Nazi's intolerable acts of barbarism. In the course of these sweeping events, which are charged with the high drama dictated by those crucial times, we encounter many prominent personalities of that tense era of the thirties and forties.
More than that, the story is skillfully brought down to the level of individuals who lived and suffered through those defining moments of the the Twentieth Century. It's spine-tingling tales of intrigue, of espionage and counter-espionage make this a must read!"
With the majority of the action taking place in Berlin during the weeks before hostilities,
Summer Storm - Prelude to Pearl Harbor
Summer Storm - Prelude to Pearl Harbor is a good old-fashioned World War II spy thriller.Starting in a rather unlikely place: a hot, gymnasium on Memorial Weekend, 1939, Summer Storm is the story of two opposites: Randy Roberts, placekicker on the local high school football team, devout Episcopalian and gay; Dexter Dannenberg, son of a Jewish haberdashery owner in Omaha, graduate of Creighton University in Classical Greek and gay.
During the course of this book each one of these young men will experience the horrors of war first hand.
Dannenberg breaks off his relationship with Roberts so he can go to work for William L. Shirer, of the Berlin news bureau of CBS --- or so he thinks. What he's about to get involved is an odyssey that will rival that of Odysseus in the Iliad. Instead of fighting cyclopes, he will have to use his wits to outsmart one of the Nazis cruelest officers --- who hunts down homosexuals with pleasure, even though he is gay himself.
In what can only be described as an absolutely crazy passage from Omaha to Berlin, "Agent" Dannenberg gets involved with a another young man named Thomek Lodz -- who is handy with a switchblade and doesn't mind using it to slit the throats of any Nazi who crosses his path.
They eventually make their way to Berlin and meet someone from Dannenberg's past who he both despises and admires. Events being what they are, the three of them have to get out of Germany before the war starts.
A harrowing escape follows.
Back in Iowa, Roberts is about to get married. His best man suspects that he's gay and doesn't mind spreading his beliefs around the town of Villisca - a small hamlet in the southeast corner of Iowa.
In a whirlwind chain of events, Roberts and his wife, Sharon end up in Pearl Harbor on "The Day of Infamy" with events that quickly spin out of control.
Gerda Weissmann Klein, subject of 1995 Academy Awards winner, Best Documentary (Short), One Survivor Remembers, said the following about Frazee's book:
"In SUMMER STORM, Paul Michael Frazee has set himself the daunting task of giving us a panoramic view of the events leading up to WWII...Its thrilling action, its surprise twists and turns of the plot are meticulously researched...
Through the motivations of its main characters, we encounter compassionate depictions of various aspects of love, and their corollary, hatred and violence, made plausible by the urgency of stemming the Nazi's intolerable acts of barbarism. In the course of these sweeping events, which are charged with the high drama dictated by those crucial times, we encounter many prominent personalities of that tense era of the thirties and forties.
More than that, the story is skillfully brought down to the level of individuals who lived and suffered through those defining moments of the the Twentieth Century. It's spine-tingling tales of intrigue, of espionage and counter-espionage make this a must read!"
With the majority of the action taking place in Berlin during the weeks before hostilities,
During the course of this book each one of these young men will experience the horrors of war first hand.
Dannenberg breaks off his relationship with Roberts so he can go to work for William L. Shirer, of the Berlin news bureau of CBS --- or so he thinks. What he's about to get involved is an odyssey that will rival that of Odysseus in the Iliad. Instead of fighting cyclopes, he will have to use his wits to outsmart one of the Nazis cruelest officers --- who hunts down homosexuals with pleasure, even though he is gay himself.
In what can only be described as an absolutely crazy passage from Omaha to Berlin, "Agent" Dannenberg gets involved with a another young man named Thomek Lodz -- who is handy with a switchblade and doesn't mind using it to slit the throats of any Nazi who crosses his path.
They eventually make their way to Berlin and meet someone from Dannenberg's past who he both despises and admires. Events being what they are, the three of them have to get out of Germany before the war starts.
A harrowing escape follows.
Back in Iowa, Roberts is about to get married. His best man suspects that he's gay and doesn't mind spreading his beliefs around the town of Villisca - a small hamlet in the southeast corner of Iowa.
In a whirlwind chain of events, Roberts and his wife, Sharon end up in Pearl Harbor on "The Day of Infamy" with events that quickly spin out of control.
Gerda Weissmann Klein, subject of 1995 Academy Awards winner, Best Documentary (Short), One Survivor Remembers, said the following about Frazee's book:
"In SUMMER STORM, Paul Michael Frazee has set himself the daunting task of giving us a panoramic view of the events leading up to WWII...Its thrilling action, its surprise twists and turns of the plot are meticulously researched...
Through the motivations of its main characters, we encounter compassionate depictions of various aspects of love, and their corollary, hatred and violence, made plausible by the urgency of stemming the Nazi's intolerable acts of barbarism. In the course of these sweeping events, which are charged with the high drama dictated by those crucial times, we encounter many prominent personalities of that tense era of the thirties and forties.
More than that, the story is skillfully brought down to the level of individuals who lived and suffered through those defining moments of the the Twentieth Century. It's spine-tingling tales of intrigue, of espionage and counter-espionage make this a must read!"
With the majority of the action taking place in Berlin during the weeks before hostilities,
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940012630360 |
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| Publisher: | The Shenandoah Project |
| Publication date: | 05/27/2004 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 347 |
| File size: | 1 MB |
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