Operation Sunflower

Michael Antonowicz has imagined a story ripped from the headlines of the war inUkraine. Operation Sunflower follows Marine Gunny Sergeant Jerry "Graze"Grazinski into the mountains of Afghanistan and the deadly battle with Isis that endedhis military career and nearly his life as well. After months of surgeries and gruelingrehab in Ramstein, Germany, Jerry returns to his childhood home in the Finger Lakesof New York state, retiring on beautiful Keuka Lake. His injuries heal, but Graze istormented by the loss of his dear Afghani friend, Tariq. His Hazara translator andcompanion had not been heard from since the fall of Kabul.A month after Russia invades Ukraine, a late night call from Jerry's formercommander summons him to a secret base near Warsaw, Poland. The Ukrainian ccounter-offensive, code named Operation Sunflower, would soon launch, and Jerrywould command a secret weapon - The Dagger- on a daring mission behind Russianlines.