CELTICLADY'S REVIEWS: From Russia Without Love by Stephen Templin Spotlight and Giveaway!

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From Russia Without Love Synopsis

SEAL Team Six veteran Chris Paladin left the Navy to become a pastor, but CIA spook Hannah Andrade pulls him back into Special Operations Group to locate the White House Chief of Staff’s kidnapped son-in-law before he is executed by Greek terrorists. Cantankerous Army Delta Force operator Sonny Cohen reunites with Chris and Hannah as they race the clock to save the hostage.

In Athens, Chris and his teammates discover that Russia is secretly behind the kidnapping, part of a murderous plan to attack the flow of natural gas in Europe. The Cold War has heated up again.

Chris and his crew’s rescue quickly changes into a mission to capture-or-kill a Russian spy.

For release worldwide on September 1, 2015

Excerpt: From Russia Without Love

London. As Chris turned down an alley to find a shortcut back to his crew’s rented office, two white men in their early twenties approached from the opposite direction, smiling and joking with each other. They looked like twins except that one had a fuller face and smoked a cigarette and the other wore glasses. Both wore suits with their necktie knots loosened. They talked loudly about having stayed up all night and teased as to whether they should get some sleep or stay up all day, too.

They seemed comfortable in the shadowed alley, and from what Chris could tell of their ages, they should be in college or working their first jobs. The twins stared at Chris like they were looking through him—a way evil men had stared through him before—and he contemplated turning around and leaving the alley. But if these two were indeed bad men, Chris didn’t want to flee like a wounded fish flapping around in the presence of sharks. He noticed that there were no CCTVs in the alley, and it would be inconspicuous enough to resolve any problems here.

Chris greeted them with a nod, and they nodded back, but when he tried to pass him, they blocked him.

“Could you help us, sir?” the one wearing glasses asked.

Chris raised his eyebrows at the kid. “What do you need help with?”

“We need some money,” the one smoking a cigarette said.

Glasses laughed.

Chris shoved past them and walked briskly forward.

“Hey!” one of them called out, and the sound of their footsteps rushed after him.

He didn’t want this to spill out into the open, so he stopped and turned around. “I have some important business to take care of, so I’d appreciate if you could get to the point.”

Cigarette removed the tobacco from his mouth and mocked Chris’s American accent. Then Glasses pulled out a switchblade and flicked the blade open. “This is the point. Give us all your money. Now!”

They both smiled.

“No, this is the point,” Chris said, and he fast-drew his pistol and aimed it at the chest of Glasses.

Their smiles dropped. Glasses took a step back and said, “Hang on, now. I was just playing.”

“How do we know that’s a real gun?” Cigarette asked.

“I don’t want to make noise, but if you insist…” Chris aimed his Glock at Cigarette’s crotch.

The kid threw up his hands and backed away. “Hey, we don’t want any trouble, man. We’ll go our way, and you go yours.”

Glasses folded the blade back into the handle of his switchblade. “See? No trouble.”

Chris put his pistol back into its holster, concealed once more by his suit jacket. This time, when he resumed his journey out of the alley, the twins didn’t follow.

About Stephen Templin

Since elementary school, STEPHEN TEMPLIN felt a need to write, dreaming of becoming a novelist, and now he is a New York Times and international bestselling author, with the movie rights to one of his movies purchased by Vin Diesel. Steve’s books have been translated into thirteen languages. He is a “hybrid” author who maintains active book contracts with top publishers such as Simon and Schuster and St. Martin’s Press while also publishing independently.

After high school, he completed Hell Week, qualified as a pistol and rifle expert, blew up things, and practiced small unit tactics during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training. Later, Steve left the Navy and became a missionary. Then for fourteen years he lectured as a tenured professor at Meio University in Japan, where he also practiced the martial art aikido. Currently, he lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

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