Educated in the U.S., England and France Soren sat his O-level examinations at the Heathland School in Hounslow, London in 1981. His undergraduate degree in Forestry is from the University of Minnesota, 1986. His law degree is from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota 1991.
Soren’s novel, Cold Lonely Courage won Fade In Magazine’s 2009 Award for Fiction. Fade In was voted the nation’s favorite movie magazine by the Washington Post and the L.A. Times in 2011 and 2012.
The French edition of Cold Lonely Courage, Courage was published January 2019, by Encre Rouge Editions, distributed by Hachette Livre in 60 countries. Soren’s contemporary novel, Tim will be released along with the rest of the books in the Madeleine Toche series of historical thrillers.
His latest book is the historical action adventure novel, Wolves at Our Door.
Website: https://www.sorenpetrek.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SPetrek_Toche44?lang=en
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Can you tell us a little about the main
characters of your book?
Madeleine Toche is a young French woman, initially a member
of the French Resistance who becomes an assassin for the British Special
Operations Executive in WWII. Her
mentor, Berthold Hartman is a German Jew and a WWI hero.
If you could tell your younger writing self anything, what
would that be?
Never ever, ever, ever give up. Winston Churchill. Find a professional editor and self-promote
constantly.
What would you say is one of your interesting writing
quirks?
Even the darkest scenes often have some degree of humor or
examine realistic human reactions.
Do you hear from your readers? What do they say?
The books are hard to put down, entertaining and love
Madeleine Toche and the other characters.
What is the toughest criticism given to you as an author?
That portions of two of the books are too unbelievable. I’d like to respond and remind them that they
are reading fiction.
What has been your best accomplishment?
I was # 37 on All Books Sold on Kindle with Cold Lonely
Courage. CLC also won Fade In Magazine’s
Fiction competition. Fade in is the
nation’s favorite movie industry periodical.
Do you Google yourself?
I have to check on promotions and effective advertising.
How many unpublished and half-finished books do you have?
I just completed The Trophy Wife. It is a wife’s revenge against a treacherous
husband who blindsides her with a divorce.
Fun question – if you were princess or prince,
what’s one thing you would do to make your kingdom a better place?
I would establish an equitable justice system and an
enormous storage program to combat starvation in lean years.
Do you have anything specific that you would like to say to
your readers?
Thank you for your support and hundreds of honest and
supportive reviews.
The Allies and the Nazis are in a deadly race to develop the ultimate
weapon while supersonic V-2
rockets rain down on London. Madeleine
Toche and Berthold Hartmann, the German super assassin who taught her to
kill, search for the secret factory where Werner von Braun and his
Gestapos masters use slave labor to build the weapons as the bodies of
the innocent pile up. The Allied ground forces push towards Berlin while
the German SS fight savagely for each inch of ground.
Finding the factory hidden beneath Mount Kohnstein, Hartmann contacts his old enemy, Winston Churchill and summons Madeleine to his side. While she moves to bring the mountain down on her enemies, Hartmann leads a daring escape from the dreaded Dora concentration camp to continue his revenge against the monsters who ruined his beloved Germany.
Together with the Russian Nachtlexen, the Night Witches, fearsome female pilots the race tightens as the United States and the Germans successfully carry out an atomic bomb test.
Germany installs an atom bomb in a V-2 pointed towards London, while the US delivers one to a forward base in the Pacific. The fate of the Second World War and the future of mankind hangs in the balance.
Read the first chapter at Booksie and don’t forget to give it a like!
Finding the factory hidden beneath Mount Kohnstein, Hartmann contacts his old enemy, Winston Churchill and summons Madeleine to his side. While she moves to bring the mountain down on her enemies, Hartmann leads a daring escape from the dreaded Dora concentration camp to continue his revenge against the monsters who ruined his beloved Germany.
Together with the Russian Nachtlexen, the Night Witches, fearsome female pilots the race tightens as the United States and the Germans successfully carry out an atomic bomb test.
Germany installs an atom bomb in a V-2 pointed towards London, while the US delivers one to a forward base in the Pacific. The fate of the Second World War and the future of mankind hangs in the balance.
Read the first chapter at Booksie and don’t forget to give it a like!
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