Donner und Blitzkrieg (ebook)

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They came home from Korea with powers. Nobody sent them home with instructions.

Korea, 1952. Lance Corporal Alex Stevens runs out of ammunition in a bayonet charge—and finds his fists glowing with lethal energy. Private Percy van Norton lifts a wrecked jeep off a dying sergeant like it weighs nothing.

Across the battlefields of the Korean War, ordinary soldiers and sailors are manifesting extraordinary abilities, and the Pentagon wants them. Whisked to a remote Army post deep in the Missouri Ozarks, they’re forged into Team Liberty—a classified joint-forces unit of superhumans that never fires a shot in anger, because the war ends before they deploy.

Mustered out and adrift in New York, Stevens and van Norton find that peace has its own battles. Crime is eating their neighborhoods, J. Edgar Hoover is watching, and a senator from Wisconsin is hunting communists under every bed—including, possibly, under every mask.

So they do the unthinkable. In a world without superheroes, two veterans put on costumes—and become the first.

But they aren’t the only ones. In a hidden colony in Argentina, the orphaned son of a Nazi general has grown up strong, blond, and able to call down lightning. He calls himself Donner—and he is sailing for New York with an army to restore the Thousand-Year Reich. An FBI agent drafted into a gaudy costume. A masked vigilante stalking the docks. A steel-skinned private eye with a magnet for a nervous system. And an archer whose zealotry may be deadlier than the Nazis.

The Golden Age of Heroes begins in blood and lightning.