That's me again, at another important site in the Spanish Civil War.

Book One of the Adventures of Mikko Kivinen 'And The Devil Just Laughed' begins early January 1938 and ends with the Nationalist capture of Barcelona just over a year later. Currently it is being edited.

In the meantime, I am working on Book 2, 'Enough Ground To Bury Our Dead' which covers the Invasion of Poland and the Winter War.

Book cover of And The Devil Just Laughed

Cast out from his father’s farm, gifted linguist Mikko Kivinen dreams only of returning to the tranquil forests and icy lakes of his Finnish homeland.

But fate has other plans. Sent to malevolent pre-war Germany, he becomes a pawn in a game of intrigue and betrayal. What are his mother’s motives for wanting to take him to the United States? Who is the beautiful Countess von Birgel, and why does she want him dead? What plans has the wily Dietrich Roth got for him? Can he trust his so-called friends, Herbert Müller, Gerhard Baum, and Ludwig Klein, aka 'The Bear'? And why does the feisty English reporter, Alice Walker, take such an interest in him?

Circumstances force Mikko into the inferno of the Spanish Civil War, where an insignificant hill becomes the focal point of the bloodiest battle of the conflict—the Battle of the Ebro. Can he survive and keep his humanity?

But this is only the prelude. An even greater conflict will soon consume Europe, and Mikko’s path will push him deeper into the chaos of a world at war.

Book cover of Enough Ground to Bury Our Dead

September 1st, 1939. Mikko Kivinen is part of an attack on a sleepy railyard in the southwest Poland. Shortly after, the cynical Abwehr officer, Dietrich Roth, escorts him to Berlin for a mysterious meeting between the head of the Abwehr, Admiral Canaris, and the beautiful British spy, Alice Walker.

Their scheming sends him to the bloody field of Wizna, 'The Polish Thermopylae', and a rendezvous with an old enemy. 

Accused of murder and imprisoned, he is desperate to go to the aid of his beloved Finland which is doomed to be obliterated by the mighty Soviet Army.

Book Two of the Adventures of Mikko Kivinen sees him fighting for his life against insurmountable odds, with enemies at every turn. He must accept the help of his friends if he is to stand a chance of survival.