Berlin Mesa

In 1941, WWII England reaches capacity for the incarceration of German POWs. Churchill persuades Roosevelt to sign a secret protocol whereby the United States will accept the majority of Axis POWs once America joins the war. Highly detailed, the protocol includes camp locations and precise instruction for prisoner distribution among them. As soon as it's transmitted, this protocol is intercepted by German Intelligence...

"I call you my Loki." Reichsfhrer Himmler grinned at von Hofmann. "You know Loki. From Wagner's Nibelungen Ring. The giant who forced his way into the company of the gods. Cunning, witty, skillful. He is the contriver of all fraud and mischief. You will be captured by the Americans, who will transfer you to the United States. Once inside an American prisoner of war camp already known to us, you will assemble a squad of loyal soldiers from among your fellow prisoners and await orders..."

The debut novel of Hollywood screenwriter Michael Frost Beckner, Berlin Mesa weaves a tapestry of intrigue and violence, romance and redemption from a rarely examined curl of history-the incarceration and escape of German POWs in the American West.

When SS Colonel Jrgen von Hofmann leads a bold escape of German POWs, the US Army and FBI assume they're making a run for Mexico. But when von Hofmann takes strong-willed war widow, Virginia Hendricks, hostage, Virginia's former beau, ex-convict Tyler Keyes, realizes the escapees are headed deeper into the unforgiving landscape on a mission to change the outcome of the war.

As von Hofmann finds himself drawn in unpleasant ways to his feisty captive, as dissension and rivalries plague his men, Tyler relentlessly hunts the one-by-one, unaware that he has become a pawn of the US Army, a target of J. Edgar Hoover, and the only hope for the OSS-as battle lines are drawn across America's most protected secret: the Manhattan Project and the birth of the nuclear age atop the high mesas of Los Alamos.