New Releases by Mike Whicker

The light-hearted, hilarious, and touching true story of two friends who found themselves in one jam after another when they became a little too friendly with some members of a mafia crime family.

A mysterious stranger shows up in Evansville, Indiana, where he kidnaps a young woman as she leaves work then surprisingly drives her straight home and drops her off unharmed. Arrested, his outrageous assertion is his motive was to save the woman from a worse fate. A local attorney is assigned as the man''s public defender. The prisoner is reluctant to cooperate with his counsel but slowly divulges his shocking claim as to his true identity, paving the way for his lawyer to recommend a plea of insanity. However, the attorney''s wife, who is his law office paralegal, is helping with the case. She slowly begins to believe the prisoner, forcing a schism between her and her husband as the trial nears. Defending the prisoner will not only put the attorney and his wife to a test of faith, but endanger them, as well.

While on holiday in the Caribbean, Erika Lehmann, Zhanna Rogova, and Amy Radu, three women who make up a CIA field agent team codenamed the Shield Maidens, find themselves unexpectedly at odds with a violent South American drug cartel. Finding aid from a young Voodoo High Priestess, things will change for Erika as her daughter, Adelaide, will make a life-altering decision.

The year is 1962. Erika Lehmann, a spy for Nazi Germany during the Second World War, is now an American citizen and lives a tranquil life in Evansville, Indiana, with her 20-year-old daughter. Erika now owns a café in the southern Indiana city and thinks her Nazi past is behind her until one day a man walks into the café.

The year is 1959. Erika Lehmann and Zhanna Rogova, two members of a CIA field agent team codenamed the Shield Maidens, are off duty and going about their lives in Evansville, Indiana, where Erika owns a café and where Zhanna works. One day a young man shows up at the café and befriends the Russian Zhanna Rogova. Little do the two Shield Maidens know that the good-natured and friendly young man has been sent to Evansville by the Soviet KGB with Zhanna as his target.

"The year is 1958. Erika Lehmann and her CIA field agent team code-named shield Maidens are sent on another mission during the dark days of the Cold War. This time to the Mediterranean islands of malta, and to the rough-and-tumble world of the infamous Casbah in Algiers before ending in the mystical and forlorn Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania. This assignment will test not only the daring and resolve of the Shield Maidens, but Erika''s teenaged daughter as well." --Page [4] of cover.

"The year is 1960. CIA agents Erika Lehmann and Zhanna Rogova are inserted into a mission that involves them with the American mafia. This assignment eventually takes them to Haiti where, unknown to them, a mysterious Voodoo High Priestess patiently awaits their arrival." --Page [4] of cover.

The year is 1952. Erika Lehmann and her fellow Shield Maidens—an elite and sometimes lethal team of female CIA operatives—join forces with a former enemy and a sultry Finnish woman from Erika’s past. Their mission takes them from Canada to Spain, with a stop in Sicily where they encounter a powerful Sicilian mafia boss.

"Erika Lehmann returns to the southern Indiana town where in 1943 she infiltrated the wartime Naval shipyard as a German spy. Now she is sent back there by the CIA on what should be an easy covert mission to find certain records. That assignment is cut shourt as she finds herself embroiled in an unexpected and harrowing rescue mission that forces her to reveal her true identity""--Page 4 of cover

The year is 1949. Courts in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Kentucky have failed to bring certain accused criminals to justice. These men begin to mysteriously disappear. One common thread amongst all the men is they are either Jewish or black. Swastika graffiti begins showing up in both cities. Are these disappearances the work of a group of citizen vigilantes, the Ku Klux Klan, or perhaps an organization even more sinister? Uncovering the truth will be the job of Axel Ryker, a cruel, scar-faced former Gestapo hitman now working for the CIA, and Erika Lehmann and her Shield Maidens, an elite group of female CIA operatives with equally shady pasts.

"The year is 1949. Two women, mortal enemies during WW II, both now work for the United States. Erika Lehmann, a former spy for Nazi Germany; and Zhanna Rogova, an assassin for the Soviet Union during the war, are tasked to team up for a mission designated by Secretary of State George Marshall. Brought together with both the famous German commando, Otto Skorzeny, and members of the Irish Republican Army, the two women enter into a harrowing and dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with shadowy forces trying to derail the birth of NATO"--Page 4 of cover

The year is 1948. CIA Deputy Director Leroy Carr is forced to bring the Shield Maidens back together. The Shield Maidens are a hard to handle, yet elite field agent team of four women who now work for the CIA. This mission will challenge them as no mission has before.

The year is 1948. Former WWII German spy Erika Lehmann now works for the CIA along with Heinrich Himmler''s top Gestapo henchman, Axel Ryker. Despite Erika''s loathing for the murderous Ryker, their CIA controller forces her to join forces with the brutal former Gestapo hitman to stop a dire threat to the population of Denver, Colorado, by a skilled and ruthless mercenary. If this hired soldier and his team are successful, it could cost thousands of innocent American men, women, and children their lives.

In 1947, a team of female CIA agents embark on a mission in Argentina. An amateur goes along to act as their translator. The mission would not stay low risk.

During the earliest days of the Cold War, the Soviets kidnap an important inventor who has been working on new technology for the USA. The Americans know they must free the inventor, who happens to also be a famous Hollywood movie star. The intrigue moves from Vienna, to East Berlin, and eventually comes to a shocking climax on the Polish border.

The true story of Ilse Dorsch who grew up in Hitler''s Third Reich. As a girl, Ilse was a staunch supporter and Hitler Youth leader until finally learning the truth of what really happened in Nazi Germany. A compelling read.

In the months just after the end of WW II, two deadly and cunning women find themselves pitted against each other in a lethal game of cat-and-mouse. One was Nazi Germany''s top spy now working for the United States: her opponent, Soviet Russia''s most feared assassin. Fall from Valhalla is a superbly researched uber-thriller set in the clandestine world of undercover ''spooks'' and ''ghosts'' operating during the earliest days of the Cold War.

Subtitle on cover: A novel of the second world war: a story of a ring.

While working on a top-secret project for the U.S. Navy in 1942 in Evansville, Indiana, a Jewish metallurgist falls in love with a beautiful woman who is the Nazis'' top spy and who was sent to the United States to steal the very secret he holds and that could alter the course of the war.

A captain of a high school football team in Evansville, Indiana discovers the diary of a young girl from 1921 while working on an old house with his father and becomes embroiled in her account of troubles with the local leader of the Ku Klux Klan.