<p>It is 1954, and the Cold War is being waged globally with even greater vigor between the West and Communism. In the sixth novel in the Jim Colling series, Seraphim and Bear, Colling finds himself on an unfamiliar front of the conflict, undertaking the rescue of a family member being held for ransom by Communist insurgents in Central America. Colling learns that the Western Hemisphere presents its own set of risks and challenges, but they are overshadowed when he is asked to locate a Person of Great Interest who has been imprisoned by the Soviet Union in East Germany. Employing his talent for audacious deception to make his way deep into the domain of Soviet State Security, he begins to realize that he might have overplayed his hand, and that this could be his final mission. Robert McCurdy served as senior house legal counsel to a large Florida hospital and health care system for 30 years prior to his retirement in 2005. Before becoming an attorney, he practiced pharmacy in community drug stores, hospitals and military healthcare facilities. During his legal career, he authored numerous articles dealing with healthcare law, and served as writer and producer for healthcare educational films. Seraphim and Bear is the sixth book in the Jim Colling Adventure Series. The series, in order, includes: Dog Robber, Rat Line, Ram's Horn and White Eagle. Some of the events in Rat Line are drawn from Mr. McCurdy's experiences as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Germany during the Cold War years of early 1960's. He lives with his wife in Cape Coral, Florida.</p>

Seraphim and Bear

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

McCurdy, Robert

Thrillers & Suspense

Elderberry Press (OR)

<p>World War II has been over for 2 years, and the Iron Curtain is firmly in place between East and West. Tech-four Jim Colling, a member of the U.S. occupation force in Germany, is looking forward to the end of his enlistment and returning to the States and settling into civilian life with the beautiful German girl he plans to marry. However, when an American Air Force bomber with A-bomb secrets aboard is forced down in Soviet territory, Colling is once again called upon by his old friend in Army intelligence, Lt. Col. Quarles, to employ his language skills and undercover experience to extricate the crew of the plane and bring them safely to the West. The task is the most dangerous that Colling has thus far faced in working for Quarles, and one in which his ingenuity will be tested to the limit, when he has to engineer his own escape from a former Nazi concentration camp.</p>

Rat Line

History

Americas

It is 1951, and the Korean War is in its second year.  Called back to active duty, Jim Colling accepts the offer of a direct commission, with assignment to Signal Corps intelligence in Europe.  On arriving in Germany, he discovers that he will be working for the CIA.   His first assignment is to enter Soviet-occupied Poland and bring the wife and children of a Polish officer who has been providing information to the Agency, safely to the West.  When carefully-laid CIA plans go awry, Colling, with the help of an old friend in Israeli intelligence, must improvise, using his ability at deception and subterfuge to complete the mission.  Colling's journey takes him into the heart of the Russian military, where one misstep will mean the difference between life and death.

White Eagle

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Seraphim and Bear

Rat Line

White Eagle