Marc Anderson and his two commando brothers are celebrated elite soldiers in the highly-secretive German Commando Special Forces, the KSK. Together with the American Navy Seals, they successfully rescue the crew of a downed American F-15 tactical fighter jet in the Hindu Kusch Mountains under a barrage of heavy fire against the Taliban. However, their next mission in Northern Iraq to save two German hostages taken captive by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ends in disaster for the three brothers in arms. The perfectly laid-out strategy of Operation Eagle is betrayed. Marc, Thomas, and Tim narrowly escape death. The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) begins its desperate attempt to uncover the double agent. The devoted commando brothers decide to leave the KSK and begin a new career together as security advisors with a large family-owned company based in Cologne. But the terrorist activities of ISIS continue to determine their fate. The brothers are faced with one of their greatest challenges when ISIS kidnaps company heir Johannes Ericson and his life companion Karina Marie and threatens the German government with extortion. It is a race against time to save the couple from assassination. Jörg H. Trauboth has written more than just an exhilarating novel. Three Brothers unites the current omnipresent threat of terrorism with the author's first-hand experience as a crisis manager and a military and terrorism expert. The result is an unrivaled political thriller. In this gripping novel, Trauboth foretells what the future holds in light of the rise of radical Islamic terrorism in our society.

About the Author: Jörg H. Trauboth was born just outside of Berlin in 1943 during an air-raid. He discovered his love for writing early in his career as an officer and was awarded top honors by the General Inspector of the German Bundeswehr. Along the way, he accumulated over two thousand flight hours as a weapons systems officer and instructor in the Phantom F-4F/RF-E4 and the Tornado aircrafts. Trauboth become a General Staff Officer in Hamburg-Blankenese and enrolled in the NATO Defense College in Rome. He has served in the German national operational headquarters as well as in the NATO Headquarters in Brussels as the German representative in the areas of Crisis Management, Operations, and Intelligence. At the age of fifty, he retired early from his post as a colonel in the German Air Force to become a Special Risk Consultant at the Control Risk Group in London and was engaged in negotiating extortion and kidnapping situations in South America and Eastern Europe. The former colonel, eager to start making money on his own and contribute to society, soon founded the Trauboth Risk Management company. He received a startup award for his company and quickly made a reputation for himself internationally as an top-notch crisis manager. During his time as CEO, he conceptualized crisis prevention strategies for a number of European companies and employed a 24-hour task force to protect them from product tampering, product recalls, kidnappings, and image crises. He was also a co-founder and the first president of the European Crisis Management Academy in Vienna and wrote a standard reference book on the subject of crisis management for companies at risk of threat. Jörg H. Trauboth is an author, filmmaker, and an enthusiastic pilot. He has served as the European Director and President of the international American Pilots Organization. His advice on crisis management remains continually sought after and he has appeared in many television interviews regarding his opinion on current international crisis situations. He is married, has two sons, three grandchildren, and lives with his wife near Bonn, Germany. In addition, Trauboth voluntarily contributes his time and expertise to the Crisis Invention Team of the German Federal Foreign Office in Bonn. trauboth-autor.de

THREE ELITE SOLDIERS Afghanistan Berlin Hammelburg Northern Iraq / Berlin Berlin THREE CONSULTANTS Rhineland: Bonn / Hangelar Airfield Berlin Palma de Mallorca / Rhineland JIHAD Mosul / Eifel Region / Cologne Rhineland-Palatinate, Büchel Air Base Tactical Air Force Wing 33 Cologne Western Mediterranean / Berlin / Algeria Berlin - Foreign Office The Northern African Mainland OPERATION RESCUE Cologne The Algerian Desert Cologne The Algerian Desert Raqqa Cologne The Algerian Desert Rhineland / Mediterranean The Algerian Desert Mallorca / Cologne Cologne Mallorca The Algerian Desert Berlin The Algerian Desert The Spanish Coast / Algeria, A Rocky Beach Raqqa Cologne THE FLIGHT OF THE CRANES Remagen Calw Rhineland / Berlin Epilogue REGISTER OF PERSONS GLOSSARY AUTHOR'S NOTE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MAPS Fig. 1 Operation Eagle Fig. 2 Operation Rescue