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 at the developmental editors, those lovely people from The History Quill.

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.

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.