The Berlin Directive

The Berlin Directive Author: MJ Hawke August 1961. The world is seconds from midnight—and Berlin is the fuse. As barbed wire and concrete slice Berlin in half, Major Jack Rourke and the covert operators of Task Force Sentinel are deployed into a city becoming the epicenter of Cold War brinkmanship. Their objective is clear: locate and extract Dr. Anton Belikov, a Soviet physicist whose guidance-system breakthroughs could rewrite the nuclear balance and give Moscow the power to strike anywhere on Earth. But nothing in Berlin is simple. Stalking the streets is Colonel Sergei Volkov, the KGB's most practiced hunter—ruthless, brilliant, and intimately familiar with Rourke's methods. When Belikov slips free of Soviet custody, Volkov unleashes a full-spectrum citywide dragnet, turning East Berlin into a tightening kill box. Cut off behind enemy lines, Rourke leads a desperate three-man assault unit: • Captain Alan Pierce, demolitions master whose controlled chaos keeps them alive • Sergeant "Hawk" Henderson, a precision marksman whose rifle becomes the team's lifeline • Lieutenant Maria Vega, deep-cover eyes and ears monitoring the Soviet war machine in real time As safe houses burn, patrols multiply, and political tensions spiral, the team is forced into the forgotten underworld beneath Berlin—abandoned tunnels, collapsed catacombs, and war-scarred ruins where a single mistake means capture, torture, or a bullet in the dark. With the Wall rising overhead and Washington denying all knowledge, Rourke must navigate sabotage, betrayal, and the relentless pressure of a manhunt engineered by Volkov himself. The line between East and West is closing fast—and if Rourke fails, Belikov's research will vanish into Moscow's vaults, and NATO's nuclear deterrent will collapse overnight. What begins as an extraction becomes a race against time, against the city, and against the one adversary Rourke has never outplayed. The Berlin Directive delivers razor-sharp action, strategic authenticity, and geopolitical tension in the grand tradition of Tom Clancy, Frederick Forsyth, and W.E.B. Griffin. This is Cold War espionage at its most intense—where a single classified mission can change the fate of nations.