We first meet Harry Braham in 1918 in the Warszaw Express. A decorated American air ace, he finds himself adrift in post-war Europe. With no expectations at home, he is enticed into helping the Poles repulse the voracious Red Army outside of Warsaw.
Harry remains in Europe a Paris-based American expatriate, he becomes an agent for a nascent intelligence operation run out of the American embassy there. As the situation in Germany worsens with the rise of the Nazis, Harry becomes involved with those opposing Fascism. In The White Raven he helps those targeted by the Gestapo flee Germany and continue the fight against tyranny.
Harry reappears in The Rhinemaiden’s Song in time for the 1936 Winter Olympics in pursuit of a new breed of wonder weapons that Hitler’s clique are developing. As usual, beautiful women and daring escapes through hostile skies punctuate the action.
With a price placed on his head by Reinhard Heydrich, Braham is forced to return to New York. A stranger in his own country, his mentors in Washington put him on the trail of Nazi saboteurs running a training camp for fifth columnists. In Whispers of Peenemünde he engages the enemy in a running gun battle across New York’s lower harbor.
After spending the war running agents in and out of Germany from his base in Zurich. Braham confronts a cadre of former Nazis in The Last Klimt. With stolen artwork serving as ready currency to ease their escape from justice, many of the worst of Hitler’s regime organize to sell their stolen goods in shady deals to the corrupt and contemptable who have returned to the salons of Europe.
Put out to pasture by the newly created CIA, Braham is brought back into harness by his old mentor in False Flags. His old enemies in the SS and Gestapo are now being manipulated by the KGB. With the creation of Israel, the masters of the Lubyanka have decided to use their German captives to fan the flames of war in the Middle East.
Harry’s friends and allies, Jerzy Krol, Karl Lieberman, Raymond Kingman, his son Tommy, Harriet Bliss, and many more appear throughout the series. Braham’s romances and enemies come and go as he spends three decades battling mankind’s worst enemies.
