For Those Who Dare

East Berlin, 1961. Kirstin Beck is determined to escape to the West. She watches from her townhouse window as the border with West Berlin is closed, and a barbed wire fence strung through the cemetery behind her house. With a grandmother in West Berlin that needs her, Kirstin knows she has to go.Tony Marino is an American writer living in West Berlin. As he watches the nearby construction progress, he sees a beautiful woman looking from her townhouse window. Kirstin holds up a sign for Tony to see.HELP ME.The two hatch a plan for Kirstin to get over the border, but the mission is not easy. With the Stasi closing in on them, Kirstin and Tony enter a kaleidoscope of deceit and danger, determined to attain freedom at any cost. But in a country torn between communism and capitalism, can Kirstin escape the world she can't endure? John Anthony Miller is a world traveler and historian. He lives in New Jersey and is employed as a Nuclear Engineer. Although his profession dictates that most of his writing resides in a technical arena, fiction has always been his passion. He has been writing for years, and has worked one-on-one with an editor from Penguin, who was the instructor in a writing class he attended. He is the author of four thrillers, one cozy and For Those Who Dare.