Finding Vlad Kozlov

by Jon Swank

Meet Vlad A two-year-old child left in a Russian orphanage by the babysitter at the end of the Cold War. He lived there until the age of five when his maternal aunt discovered him and took him to live with her in Tel Aviv and later back to Russia. Vlad Kozlov grows up to be a Russian man destined to live the life of a lonely spy.

Meet Logan A recent graduate from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. Logan wins a large grant from the LGBTQ organization, Born Free, to choose any project and make the world a better place.

Logan is a distant cousin of the younger Triston MacDonald, a teenager struggling with his identity as being genderqueer. Tristan is lost at the age of fifteen in the struggle to establish his sexual identity. By age seventeen, he goes missing from Morocco while cutting ties with the family who loves him. John MacDonald, the Canadian ambassador to Russia and Tristan’s father, asks for Logan’s help to find his son.

Follow Vlad and Logan as the search for the young Triston takes them around the globe, navigating thechallenges of Covid, facing dangerous terrorist and finding each other along the way.



If you enjoy reading stories about men falling in love with men, written by men, then you might enjoy these other books by Jon



Berlin Book 1: Hot and Cold

Berlin Book 2: In and Out

Berlin Book 3: Langsam und Schnell

Berlin Book 4: Light and Dark

Berlin Book 5: Loud and Clear

Berlin Book 6: Over and Out

Nevada Cain Ranch

Delta Hotel

Delta Hotel Two

Long Live the Solenopsis invicta

Purgatory Ranch

Sailor’s Island

White Gold of the Amazon

Magic Sky

The Killer from Marble Falls High

The Other Man’s Space

Rainbows over Goa



gay military, gay mystery, gay adventure, gay romance, LBGTQ, gay western, gay cowboy, gay science fiction, gay espionage.

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Published December 14, 2024

About the author

Jon Swank is a thirteen year veteran of the United States Air Force where he served as an officer in radar operations.

JonSwankNovels.@icloud.com

Reviews

[PaperMoon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This didn't really work for me as a romance ... Vlad was too much of a cypher to work as a potential love interest (especially when written as a stereotypical monosyllabic exercise-obsessed Russian); and nowhere near the Slavic anti-heroes by A. Voinov. Secondary character Triston (who is the entire reason for bringing the MCs to work together) also seemed rather 'wasted', appearing in barely 20 or so pages at either end of the tale. I'm also puzzled by the introduction 'late in the day' of William and Corey - neither of whom brought much to the tale development except to add additional roadblocks for finding the missing or furthering any developing attraction between the MCs. So not one of this author's better books - 2.5 stars rounded up to 3.