My Enemy's Enemy

by Robert Buettner

Stop the Nazi A-bomb

In September 1939, Nazi Holocaust mastermind Heinrich Himmler conscripts brilliant physicist Peter Winter to devise a secret weapon of supreme power and to create a revolutionary aircraft to deliver it. Peter and his Jewish wife, Rachel, know they may only be able to slow Himmler down and not stop him from developing the ultimate weapon.

Nazi madness and terrorist evil combine

In modern-day Pakistan, the elite terrorist known as the Asp survives a US drone strike, then undertakes a solo mission to penetrate America's heartland to wreak destruction. Meanwhile, ambitious aircraft historian Cassidy Gooding and irascible Colorado cowboy Frank Luck unlock an aviation relic's secret and discover the terrible truth the Asp may be closing in on.

The America

Now high atop North America's backbone, old secrets collide with new, and Cass and Frank must prevent the possible massive devastation of an American city - or die trying. If they fail? Millions may perish.

Genres: Thriller, Science Fiction

Audible Audio

Published June 15, 2021

About the author

Robert Buettner’s best-selling debut novel, Orphanage, 2004 Quill Award nominee for Best SF/Fantasy/Horror novel, was called the Post-9/11 generation’s Starship Troopers and “one of the great works of modern military science fiction.” Orphanage has been adapted for film by Olatunde Osunsanmi (The Fourth Kind) for Davis Entertainment (Predator, I Robot, Eragon). Orphanage and other books in Robert’s Jason Wander series have been translated into Chinese, Czech, French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. Robert was a 2005 Quill nominee for Best New Writer.

In April, 2014 Baen Books released his eighth novel, Balance Point. A long-time Heinlein Society member, Robert wrote the Afterword for Baen’s recent re-issue of Heinlein’s Green Hills of Earth/Menace From Earth short story collection. His own first original short story, Sticks and Stones, appears in the 2012 anthology, Armored, edited by John Joseph Adams. Robert served as the author judge for the 2011 National Space Society Jim Baen Memorial short story writing contest.

Robert is a former U.S. Army intelligence officer and National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology. As attorney of record in more than three thousand cases, he practiced in the U.S. federal courts, before courts and administrative tribunals in no fewer than thirteen states, and in five foreign countries. Six, if you count Louisiana.

He lives in Georgia with his family and more bicycles than a grownup needs.

Visit him on the web at www.RobertBuettner.com.

Reviews

[William Bentrim · Rating 5 out of 5]

My Enemy’s Enemy by Robert Buettner
This story see-sawed between WWII and the present. A terrorist who want to harm the USA and a German who wants to save Jews are the different ends of the see-saw.
The rise of Hitler and the genocide of the Jews set the stage for the development of the Nazi’s ultimate weapon. Peter Winter, as an up and coming physicist, is drafted to be the mind behind the Nazi’s ultimate weapon. Little did Himmler know that Aryan perfect Peter Winter with an impeccable Nazi’ pedigree hated the Nazis.
Cass is a museum geek who would prefer field work. She gets her wish but it is far more than she bargained for when she faces Islamic Jihad and Frank Luck, a drunken cowboy.
This was an excellent story with lots of action and believability.
I highly recommend it.

[Henry Lazarus · Rating 4 out of 5]

History tells us that the Nazi’s didn’t develop a nuclear bomb. Robert Buettner posits that they might have but the results were buried in rubble. In a Mountain Lake, deep in the Rockies, he sends a terrorist known as the Asp, to recover the plans to a bomb lost there since the end of World War II. The secrets were sent by an aging Nazi who thought that a fanatical Islamic cult was My Enemy’s Enemy (hard from Baen). Peter West was a rising physicist in Germany before Hitler. He and his Jewish wife Rachael (she in hiding) end up working in the secret plant deep in the salt mines of Salzburg to develop a simplified Uranium bomb and a jet big enough to carry to the bomb to the US. What’s amazing about the tale is the details that prove that Germany could indeed have created an atomic bomb. Very Scary.Review printed by Philadelphia Free Press

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book I've read this year. Entertaining throughout. The weaving through between 1930's/1940's and the modern day was well done. The author kept tension in both storylines until the climax and then tied them up together nicely at the end. I thought that the view into parts of WWII Germany was fair and showed multiple human sides. While it was more of a sketch than an in depth exploration it was done by a sketch artist that can turn a few lines into art.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

A hi-tech thriller that uses a slight tweak on history as its premise. Very readable for the most part with interesting characters, I would say that my only complaint is that the author neatly explained and wrapped up all the loose parts.

[Bill · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Nazis created a number of advanced military technologies near the end of WW2; fortunately too little too late. But what if ...

[Kris Sellgren · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a conventional thriller, with chapters alternating between Nazi Germany and now.

[Yvette Strickland · Rating 5 out of 5]

Scarily plausible.

In this alternative history, the past and present are woven together into a scarily plausible story. Thanks Bob and keep them coming!