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Karl Wegener

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Born

Cleveland, Ohio, The United States

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https://karlwegener.com/

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Historical Fiction, Thriller

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Karl Wegener is an American author who served as a Russian linguist in the United States Army Security Agency and with the Intelligence & Security Command during the Cold War. He also served as a combat interrogator in the United States Air Force Intelligence Service Reserve.

Upon leaving active duty, he served as an intelligence and targeting analyst and worked on issues that included Soviet and Warsaw Pact force readiness, Soviet tactical and strategic missile system deployment and doctrine, and nuclear weapons logistics.

With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, he began a nearly 30-year career in marketing and advertising. He was a vice president of marketing and product planning for a large Japanese consumer elec ...more

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	Operation Nightfall: The Web of Spies 4.59 avg rating — 49 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Writing a Sequel to Grown Men Cry Out at Night

I'm working away at the sequel for Grown Men Cry Out at Night, another work of historical fiction set during the Cold War, based on true events.

In March 1955, Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Nikolai Bulganin, Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers signed government decree no. 589-365. Their action set in motion one of the most secret military Read more of this blog post »

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A Thrilling, Fast-Paced Medical Techno-Thriller That Is Hard to Put Down Deadly Vision, T.D. Severin's debut novel is a fast‑paced medical techno‑thriller that follows Dr. Taylor Abrahms, a brilliant surgeon‑researcher pioneering a groundbreaking blen ...more
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James Stejskal’s The Ratcatcher of Berlin is a triumph of meticulous research and vivid storytelling. From the very first page, I was drawn into a world where every street, scent, and whispered conversation felt as if I had stepped back into Cold-War ...more
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Karl’s Quotes

“Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.”
― Edward Albee

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“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

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“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding

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