A Question of Time, James Stejskal
A Question of Time, James Stejskal
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A Question of Time
A Cold War Spy Thriller

Author: James Stejskal

Narrator: Perry Daniels

Unabridged: 8 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/25/2023


Synopsis

Berlin, 1979.

When the CIA's most valuable spy is compromised, the Agency realizes it does not have the capability to bring him to safety. If he cannot evade the dreaded East German security service, the result will be chaos and a cascade of failures throughout the Agency's worldwide operations.

Master Sergeant Kim Becker lived through the hell of Vietnam as a member of the elite Studies and Operations Group. When he lost one of his best men in a pointless operation, he began to question his mission. Now, he is serving with an even more secretive Army Special Forces unit based in Berlin on the front line of the Cold War.

The CIA turns to Becker's team of unconventional warfare specialists to pull their bacon out of the fire. Becker and his men must devise a plan to get him out by whatever means possible. It's a race against time to prepare and execute the plan while, alone in East Berlin, the agent must avoid his nemesis and play for time inside the hostile secret service headquarters he has betrayed.

One question remains—is the man worth the risk?

About James Stejskal

James Stejskal, after thirty-five years of service with United States Army Special Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency, is a uniquely qualified historian and novelist. He is the author of Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army's Elite, 1956-1990; Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz; No Moon as Witness; and The Snake Eater Chronicles.


Reviews

A chilling, tense and deeply poignant Cold War spy thriller! I haven’t read a Cold War espionage novel in a quite a while, preferring to focus more on military thrillers where the action is present day based, politically-twisted and the threat is crazy jihadists or smugglers, however when I read the......more

Goodreads review by Joemodz

I’ve been wanting to read A Question of Time by James Stejskal, a member of the Spybrary community, and I am glad I finally did! I have to admit, I was a little afraid this was going to be a full-on military book, but this is 1979 Cold War espionage at its best! A Question of Time starts off with an......more

Goodreads review by Steven

Former Special Forces soldier and CIA officer James Stejskal strikes gold with his first foray into fiction, A Question of Time. Set in the late 1970s, the central protagonists are Master Sergeant Kim Becker, the ODA team sergeant for an element of the secretive Special Forces Berlin detachment; and......more

Goodreads review by J.R.

James Stejskal is an established non-fiction writer. I have read his previous works and was surprised to find this thriller. Often, publishers put a comment on the jacket about how exciting the book is. In this case, it is no exaggeration. This book is hard to put down. Set in Berlin in the late days......more