War of the Rats

A Novel

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  • For
  • six
  • months
  • in
  • 1942,
  • Stalingrad
  • is
  • the
  • center
  • of
  • a
  • titanic
  • struggle
  • between
  • the
  • Russian
  • and
  • German
  • armies—the
  • bloodiest
  • campaign
  • in
  • mankind's
  • long
  • history
  • of
  • warfare.
  • The
  • outcome
  • is
  • pivotal.
  • If
  • Hitler's
  • forces
  • are
  • not
  • stopped,
  • Russia
  • will
  • fall.
  • And
  • with
  • it,
  • the
  • world....German
  • soldiers
  • call
  • the
  • battle
  • Rattenkrieg,
  • War
  • of
  • the
  • Rats.
  • The
  • combat
  • is
  • horrific,
  • as
  • soldiers
  • die
  • in
  • the
  • smoking
  • cellars
  • and
  • trenches
  • of
  • a
  • ruined
  • city.
  • Through
  • this
  • twisted
  • carnage
  • stalk
  • two
  • men—one
  • Russian,
  • one
  • German—each
  • the
  • top
  • sniper
  • in
  • his
  • respective
  • army.
  • These
  • two
  • marksmen
  • are
  • equally
  • matched
  • in
  • both
  • skill
  • and
  • tenacity.
  • Each
  • man
  • has
  • his
  • own
  • mission:
  • to
  • find
  • his
  • counterpart—and
  • kill
  • him.But
  • an
  • American
  • woman
  • trapped
  • in
  • Russia
  • complicates
  • this
  • extraordinary
  • duel.
  • Joining
  • the
  • Russian
  • sniper's
  • cadre,
  • she
  • soon
  • becomes
  • one
  • of
  • his
  • most
  • talented
  • assassins—and
  • perhaps
  • his
  • greatest
  • weakness.
  • Based
  • on
  • a
  • true
  • story,
  • this
  • is
  • the
  • harrowing
  • tale
  • of
  • two
  • adversaries
  • enmeshed
  • in
  • their
  • own
  • private
  • war—and
  • whose
  • fortunes
  • will
  • help
  • decide
  • the
  • fate
  • of
  • the world.
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