"King of Drones 2: Konstantin" eBook (EPUB & PDF formats)
In the explosive follow-up to King of Drones, former Russian Lt. Colonel Konstantin Yefremov becomes both fugitive and freedom fighter. After discovering his daughter Nadia has been imprisoned in Russia, he launches a daring cross-border rescue with help from his resourceful ally Beamer and a mysterious attorney named Tasha. What starts as a personal mission soon spirals into a high-stakes battle involving deep-state operatives, drone warfare, and a coup against Vladimir Putin himself. As alliances blur and betrayals mount, Konstantin must decide how far he’ll go—and who he’ll become—to protect his family and stop a new generation of tyrants from seizing control.
In the explosive follow-up to King of Drones, former Russian Lt. Colonel Konstantin Yefremov becomes both fugitive and freedom fighter. After discovering his daughter Nadia has been imprisoned in Russia, he launches a daring cross-border rescue with help from his resourceful ally Beamer and a mysterious attorney named Tasha. What starts as a personal mission soon spirals into a high-stakes battle involving deep-state operatives, drone warfare, and a coup against Vladimir Putin himself. As alliances blur and betrayals mount, Konstantin must decide how far he’ll go—and who he’ll become—to protect his family and stop a new generation of tyrants from seizing control.
In the explosive follow-up to King of Drones, former Russian Lt. Colonel Konstantin Yefremov becomes both fugitive and freedom fighter. After discovering his daughter Nadia has been imprisoned in Russia, he launches a daring cross-border rescue with help from his resourceful ally Beamer and a mysterious attorney named Tasha. What starts as a personal mission soon spirals into a high-stakes battle involving deep-state operatives, drone warfare, and a coup against Vladimir Putin himself. As alliances blur and betrayals mount, Konstantin must decide how far he’ll go—and who he’ll become—to protect his family and stop a new generation of tyrants from seizing control.
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Excerpt
Chapter One: “Kursk”
In the spring of 1943, Hitler’s invading army looked for a knockout blow against the resurgent Red Army near the beleaguered Russian city of Kursk. Hitler’s generals wanted to exploit a salient in the front lines that they felt could be flanked to cause the encirclement and annihilation of nearly a million Soviet soldiers. Knowing they were outnumbered, the German generals all agreed that a two-pronged attack should commence as soon as the rainy season ended and should be conducted at breakneck speed before the lumbering Soviet Army could adjust and pivot its defenses.
Frustrating his generals, Hitler disagreed with the plan. He preferred to wait for the arrival at the front of new German main battle tanks that included the formidable Panzer 5, or “Panther” as well as the Panzer 6 “Tiger” that sported the war’s deadliest gun, the feared Flak 88. He believed these “super tanks” would play a decisive role in Kursk, and that despite enjoying numerical superiority, the Soviet tanks would be powerless to stop the German behemoths.
“Operation Citadel”, Nazi Germany’s name for the operation, was therefore delayed until July of 1943. The Soviets benefitted from the extra time afforded them by Hitler’s mandate to wait for the Tigers, by building elaborate defenses and flooding the area with some 3,500 tanks of their own. On July 5th, the biggest tank battle in the history of warfare commenced.
A week later on the northern fringe of the battle, four German Tiger tanks from the 1st SS Panzer Division moved to an elevated steppe. The commander of the lead Tiger watched in awe as a hundred Soviet T-34 tanks approached his position, threatening to break through the German lines. These four Tiger tanks were all that stood between this massive, mechanized force and the soft underbelly of the German artillery, communication, and logistical support elements that the Soviets perceived as sitting ducks.
With deadly accuracy, the 88-millimeter guns from the four Tiger tanks decimated the lead elements of the swiftly advancing T-34’s which created a bottleneck for the main thrust. Forced to swing around the burning husks, another hail of armor piercing rounds stopped the second wave of Soviet armor in its tracks. Before any of the shorter barreled T-34’s even fired a single 76.2mm round, nearly four dozen were obliterated.