"Just because you trust someone doesn't mean that person is trustworthy!" Berlin: Back to the Beginning takes a trip back in time to the Cold War, when Chief is thrust into the dark world of espionage and illicit agent networks. His initial assignment to Field Station Berlin, an NSA collection site, changes the trajectory of Chief's life forever, launching the young and innocent soldier into the deep, dark shadows of Covert Operations. Follow the journey through the Six Days to Zeus series, from Alive Day, Please don't call me Hero and the Moral wounds of War by going back to the very beginning where it all started, 110 miles behind the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War.
You will marvel at the ingenious methods Chief uses to break a Soviet cypher, using a grocery scanner and thermal fax machine paper. Synchronicity steps in when a passing conversation with a "crazy lady", ultimately ends with the take down of 14 Terrorist networks throughout Europe. U.S. Operation Porch Light proves that the smallest things in life can often lead to the greatest successes, or the greatest failures.
Living in Hitler's old SS barracks, surrounded by the Berlin Wall with armed soldiers inside guard towers with orders to shoot to kill and with dogs trained to kill humans, Chief's life changes when he sees Russian and East German soldiers kill anyone who tries to escape to the West. This story is filled with real life missions from breaking Soviet cyphers to tracking Soviet Spetsnaz, crossing into East Bloc countries to bring out Russian Nuclear Physicists, and going after those who attempted to kill the only thing Chief lived for: His two young sons. Only the quick action of a Polizei captain saved the two young boys from certain death in a car bomb placed by the Red Army Faction.