Stephen Cohen
WWII Era Historical Fiction Writer
WWII Era Historical Fiction Writer
Berlin 1939 - 1943 From the smoking ruins of a bombed Berlin brothel, three shocked and injured female survivors are taken to a secluded training facility by Nazi officer, Gruppenführer Walter Schellenberg. They're not there for official business but for medical treatment. Trained by the SS officer in all aspects of espionage, the women are desperate to survive. They turn the tables on their armed captors and kill them. After covering their tracks, the women return to ply the only trade they know... with an added twist. Somehow these 'sisters in arms' escape the attention of the Nazis, despite the high rank of their victims, and their lucrative business thrives. They haven't escaped everyone's notice though. British Intelligence were monitoring Schellenberg's operations for some time, and their attention has zeroed in on the three women. They dispatch one of their top male agents to make contact...
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After several successful missions over the past three years, Hannah, Petra and Heidi are preparing for their most dangerous mission yet. Hitler's "Directive 18, also known as Operation Felix" is back on the table and the Third Reich generals are storming ahead with preparations.
Whilst Spain struggles with staying neutral, they are constantly pressured from both the Axis and Allied powers to join the war, pay offs to the tune of millions are paid to Franco in an effort to sway his decision from both sides. The Allies are fully aware that Franco and Hitler are close friends, also that Franco allows SS agents to operate in Spain and that he has always had a powerful desire to take Gibraltar back from the British.
The girls hook up with other female allied agents from France and head for Spain, their objective, make contact with all the SS agents and take them out before "Operation Felix" can commence, destroy any and all invasion support fuel and ammo dumps.
Their struggle continues...
Hitler's Secret Operation
Directive 18, Operation Felix
1944. The war has been raging for five years now. With each passing day, the death toll only seems to grow on all sides. In the struggle against the Third Reich, Hannah and Petra are doing all they can to aid the fight, but with Heidi now out of action, it is proving hard to keep their focus on what - or who - they should be fighting against.
Despite their internal struggles, both Hannah and Petra are working hard to grow their organisation, all while undertaking several new missions from both the British and the US that will see them travel across war-torn Europe.
The end of the war still seems so far. Will the girls prevail, or will everything they have worked towards end in a cloud of smoke?
Operation remorse
This British operation was run by the SOE in Hong Kong and China, which involved counterfeiting currency and smuggling. This generated over 77 million in profits for the SOE.
In the ashes of a dying world war, a dead president, and a crumbling empire, the Blue Ring Assassins prepare to seize their greatest prize yet: total control. April 1945. As news of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death rocks the globe, master assassin Hannah senses the perfect storm. Power vacuums are an assassin’s playground, and she intends to turn the chaos into her personal empire. With her foul-mouthed, lethal partner Petra at her side, Hannah sets her sights on high-stakes political meetings, corrupt arms dealers, shifting governments, and the blood-soaked aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
From smoky London pubs to opulent estates and the neon-drenched underbelly of post-war Tokyo, the Blue Ring doesn’t just kill—they manipulate, infiltrate, and ignite revolutions. While politicians scramble and criminals fight over the scraps of a broken world, Hannah and her ruthless sisterhood position themselves as the unseen architects of the new order. But in a game where loyalty is currency and betrayal is inevitable, one wrong move could see the Blue Ring swallowed by the very chaos they worship. The war is ending. The real war is just beginning. Blue Ring Assassins: Book 4 – Where shadows don’t hide… they rule.
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In the shadow of 1947, as the Cold War ignites between superpowers armed with secrets and the spectre of the bomb, a hidden army of women is already winning the invisible war.
Hannah, Petra, and Mila lead The Blue Ring Assassins—hundreds of operatives embedded in the heart of power: housewives in kitchens, secretaries in high-ranking positions, maids polishing silver in grand hotels around the world, even whispers inside the Kremlin.
They listen at dinner tables, during meeting, steal carbons from briefcases, pass coded messages in laundry lists. Intelligence flows like blood—until one chilling transmission changes everything.
A radiological “dirty bomb” is primed to explode in Berlin, framed to look like Soviet aggression, engineered by a rogue cabal of American and Soviet hardliners who crave the war both sides pretend to fear. The Ladies must expose the plot without ever stepping into the light—or the world burns.
But betrayal festers within their own ranks. Assassins hunt in the shadows. Operatives vanish. Trust fractures. Every coded whisper, every midnight crossing, every stolen glance across a crowded room could be the last. In a world of double agents and deadly grace, these women are the unseen hand that could save civilization—or doom it. One wrong move, and the Cold War turns nuclear.
They’ve infiltrated every government.
They know every secret.
And they will stop at nothing to keep the world from ending. A pulse-pounding historical thriller of espionage, sisterhood, and high-stakes betrayal—perfect for fans of John le Carré, Ken Follett, and the unbreakable women who shaped history in silence.
Out Early Next Year
In the frozen shadows of Stalin’s Moscow, 1948, the Soviet Union’s most secret weapon isn’t a bomb—it’s a woman. Soviet Section 68
A razor-sharp Cold War thriller of seduction, betrayal, and blood. Deep in the snowbound woods stands the Red Dacha: Section 68, the MGB’s classified fortress where two dozen young women are moulded into “lastochki”—swallows—professional honey-trap agents trained to ensnare foreign diplomats with lipstick, lies, and lethal bedroom arts. Lessons in poison-laced champagne, hidden cameras, pressure points that kill quietly, and the art of faking ecstasy while stealing secrets. Their bodies belong to the Party; their hearts are forbidden. But three infiltrators from the ruthless all-female Blue Ring network—Lydia (“Swan”), Katya, and Anya—have already breached its walls. Dispatched by the ice-veined handler Mila after intercepting early intelligence in 1945, these Soviet-born operatives pose as eager recruits, feeding nightly microfilms and coded bursts back to Berlin. Their mission: gather intelligence on the next wave of kompromat targets. What starts as silent observation explodes into a vortex of triple crosses, genuine passion, staged murders, and poisoned loyalty. One swallow falls in love with her mark. Another sends unsanctioned reports to save her skin. A third turns traitor, choosing survival over sisters. When a loyalty purge leaves bodies in the bathhouse and truth serum shatters vows, the Blue Ring’s own network fractures. Executions in snow, interrogations in Lubyanka cells, a deadly ambassador’s ball where champagne hides cyanide—every seduction becomes a potential grave. As commanders Hannah and Petra launch desperate extractions and Mila faces her own betrayal, one woman rises from the ashes: Lydia Voronova, the swallow who learns too well. Trained to entrap diplomats, she becomes the trap itself—seizing control of Section 68 from the inside, blue ring gleaming around her neck, whispering to her reflection: “They never taught me what to do when I became the predator.” In a world where love is leverage, trust is suicide, and every kiss could be fatal, the swallows are flying blind—and one is about to bring the entire aviary crashing down. Soviet Section 68
Seduction is their weapon.
Betrayal is their destiny.
Survival is the ultimate treason. A pulse-racing espionage epic of honey-drenched deception and cold-blooded sisterhood—perfect for fans of Red Sparrow, John le Carré, and the deadly grace of women who rewrite history in silk and shadows.
Out Late Next Year
Hitler annexes several countries; Europe is in turmoil. Britain is going to war, the call to arms is passed by parliament. The “Call Up” however, is not for everyone, certain occupations are exempt as they are considered vital to the country and the coming war effort.
Despondent and angry, Detective Inspector Brakes battles with his inner conflicts as he comes to terms with not being able to join his comrades in arms.
However, for DI Brakes, his case load is about to become more diverse than he could ever imagine. For him, his war is also just beginning, but on the Homefront. War-related, murder, espionage and a whole host of other cases ensue.
A killer in the clouds. A war on the home front. And a detective who won't let a cold case die.
1942, war-torn Britain. While the bombs fall on Norwich, Detective Inspector Brakes is haunted by a different kind of terror: a string of bizarre, unsolved deaths over three years, scattered across the English countryside. Five bodies found in military uniform, each with a parachute-unopened. The official verdict is accident, but Brakes, a charismatic, thrill-seeking detective with a knack for cold cases, is certain it's murder.
When a sixth victim surfaces in Suffolk under the same chilling circumstances, Brakes is finally given his chance to prove a killer is operating under the cover of war. Dragged to a pressurised Scotland Yard, he must lead a task force to solve a case the government fears will shatter public morale.
In the shadowed streets of wartime Norwich, 1943, vengeance and conspiracy collide in a pulse-pounding hunt that will test one detective to his breaking point. When Inspector Brakes returns home to find his beloved father shot dead in their living room, grief ignites into a relentless fury. Eyewitnesses point to two killers: a tall, scarred man and his stocky accomplice in a red cap, fleeing in a rusty black van. But as Brakes and his loyal partner Vera tear through pubs, docks, and the misty Norfolk Broads in a high-stakes chase—complete with motor launches, fistfights, and a daring river pursuit—he uncovers far more than a simple murder. The trail leads to forged documents, kidnapped women used as pawns, and a sinister Nazi operation code-named Schatten. At its dark heart? Rogue elements tied to the Catholic Church’s alleged ratlines—escape routes smuggling war criminals to safety—while the Vatican walks a perilous line of neutrality. With threats delivered to his desk, a personal vendetta turning violent, and Abwehr agents like the scar-faced Lukas still at large, Brakes must navigate betrayal, hidden tunnels beneath ancient cathedrals, and a final, explosive motorcycle showdown on rain-slicked roads. In this gripping third instalment of the DI Brakes Investigates series, one man’s quest for justice blurs the line between duty and obsession. Can Brakes bring his father’s killers to account before the shadows of WWII swallow him whole—or will the ratlines claim another victim? Raw. Relentless. Rooted in the moral complexities of a world at war.
Perfect for fans of historical thrillers like the Bernie Gunther series or Maisie Dobbs—where personal loss meets global conspiracy, and every lead could be your last.
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