The Collision Collection

By John LeBeau

From former CIA operative John J. LeBeau The Collision Trilogy: CIA operative John Hirter and Kommissar Franz Waldbaer collaborate to defeat terrorism when it threatens the bucolic countryside of Bavaria. In Collision of Evil, vestiges of the Third Reich meet the Islamic terrorists of today head-on in the Alps; in Collision of Lies, a powerful multinational group conspires to provide Iran with nuclear weapons; and in Collision of Centuries, the bubonic plague—now in the hands of terrorists—threatens to plunge the world into the Dark Ages. All three are chilling, terrifying, and stunning international thrillers about deadly intentions with horrific consequences— and the unbridled heroism of two men, an American CIA agent and a German detective. These “Collision” espionage thrillers had to be cleared by both the CIA and the NSA.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
• Release date: Jun 26, 2018
• ISBN: 9781608092901

Reviews for The Collision Collection

[fromkin_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

John LeBeau's "Collision of Evil" tries to marry two of the world's great fears: Nazis and Islamic terrorists, and it seems a pretty forced concept.A young American hiking in Bavaria is murdered when he blunders into an Alpine cave holding decades-old crates. Who killed him, and what was in the crates? The mystery goes back to the waning days of World War II when an SS officer is ordered to transport a shipment of crates from Berlin to the Bavarian alps. Do the crates contain gold? Official papers? Or something else. The American's brother, a CIA caseworker, travels to Germany to bring home his brother's body and to involve himself in the local police murder investigation. It turns out that the crates contain the components of a chemical weapon, which have been appropriated by a cell of Muslim terrorists. What is their target? The book is a race against time, with the terrorists attempting to complete and use their weapon of mass destruction before they are discovered by the CIA/German investigators.This is a very uneven book. Sometimes the dialogue crackles and sparks; other times it is leaden, particularly when the author engages in exposition - characters describing to each other what we had already experienced in real-time as readers. The book is also replete with stereotypes, whether Nazis, German revelers, fanatical Muslims, or alternately clever and obtuse investigators. There's plenty of action and rushing around, but it doesn't amount to very much. I'd call this a good beach read.