The Longshoreman's Secret War
A Three-Generation Spy Saga

About this book:

The fog over Red Hook hides more than cargo. In 1953, longshoreman Joseph Kowalski just wants to unload ships and feed his family—but a crate marked *Agricultural Implements* from Soviet-era Jena, a stranger with a suppressed revolver who knows his classified wartime record, and a midnight hijacking orchestrated by his own union boss drag him into a shadow war he thought he'd left behind in the ruins of Nordhausen.

From the rusted hulls of Liberty ships to the digital surveillance of the modern harbor, *The Longshoreman's Secret War* follows three generations of the Kowalski family as they navigate a conspiracy that turns the world's busiest port into a battlefield. Spies don't always wear suits—sometimes they wear denim jackets and carry cargo hooks. And the most dangerous secrets aren't in diplomatic pouches. They're in the holds, waiting to be offloaded.

Packed with visceral waterfront atmosphere, bone-cracking action, and a mystery that spans the Cold War to the age of cyber-espionage, this is spy fiction with salt in its veins and grease under its fingernails. The first manifest has been falsified. The truth is heavy. And the Kowalskis are the only ones willing to lift it.