John Bushby

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Author John Bushby draws his inspiration from the classic spy films of the forties. He was introduced to the film noire genre while in grade school. Beginning by watching grainy films on a1950s black and white television he began to satiate his taste for the genre by reading everything he could find. He soon became a regular at the bookstore and library. Bushby has drawn on the experience of over thirty years of global business experience, traveling in and out of Europe and Asia to set the background for his books.

His characters come from the people he has met along the way. Heroes and villains are drawn from casual and close acquaintances, often a mixture of both. His stories put the reader in the place where they ask, what would I do in a situation where life or death might hang in the balance? Bushby's characters live in the years between the two world wars caught in the swirl of action and intrigue as spies try to best one another and evil and good position themselves for the catastrophe to come.

Bushby was born in Westfield, NJ. He earned his pilot's license at age 16 flying out of what was then Hadley Airport in South Plainfield,NJ. A 1966 graduate of Westfield High School, he has a BS from Rider College and an MBA from the Wharton School. He is a retired US Navy Lieutenant Commander with 67 combat missions over North Vietnam.Bushby lives in Flanders, New Jersey. During his business career he has worked in over 30 countries and is an expert on emerging securities markets. He is divorced and has 5 children. He enjoys travel, fly-fishing and writing. is now working on the next titles in the Harry Braham and Rick Kasten series. John is an NAIBA Regional Author. You can learn more at his website; www.johnbushby.com or follow me on Twitter @JbushbyBu.

John released Prowler Ball in December 2013. This is the story of a young Naval Flight Officer in combat in the skies over North Vietnam. It is based on his experiences flying in the last days of combat in the skies over Hanoi and Haiphong.

Look for the latest in the Harry Braham series, The Last Klimt, available in February 2019. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Harry Braham is caught up with Nazi war criminals trying to sell stolen art while the KGB is looking to make its mark in Europe.

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False Flags Jun 16, 2020

by John Bushby

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German prisoners of war trained as KGB agents and sent to help the Arab Legion destroy the new nation of Israel. Harry Braham comes out of retirement to battle them and save an old friend.

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Revenge of the Dragon Lady Aug 30, 2016

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In 1938, the tropical waters of the South China Sea and its myriad of islands are unknown to most Americans. All the while Tokyo’s militarists are working on how to seize those isolated atolls from which to launch their nation’s aggression against the American-held Philippines.

Reports of clandestine naval activity in those waters have reached Washington and US Navy flier Jack French is sent to the islands to investigate. From the moment he steps aboard the China Clipper bound for Manila he is thrust into a world of danger and intrigue. Who is more dangerous to him; traitors, Japanese spies, German agents or the elusive Dragon Lady, the queen of Philippine crime?

Long before Pearl Harbor, French is engaged in battle as he searches from island to island to uncover a conspiracy intended to bring war to this tropical paradise.

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Prowler Ball Nov 28, 2013

by John Bushby , Milijana Dukovic

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Prowler Ball is written as a novelized autobiography about a time of challenge and conflict. It brings to life the experience of a young naval flight officer sent off to the Gulf of Tonkin to support the air war in Vietnam. The book began as a series of notes and sketches written by the author during his combat cruise to Vietnam during 1972-73. It is the story of young men thrust into combat to fight what is perhaps America’s least popular conflict. Unlike the fighting heroes of the “Greatest Generation” these veterans suffered derision and scorn upon their return to American society.
This book is a chronicle of the last few months of that war. It was a time of intense air operations against targets in North Vietnam. The American nation had tired of the war, and dissention was rife at home. Still, young men volunteered for the naval service and put themselves through the rigors of training to learn to fly sophisticated jet airplanes in the defense of their country. No amount of politically correct smugness can detract from the courage and heroism that they displayed in the skies over Vietnam. Though a novel, the chapters in Prowler Ball are filled with of true incidents and details of missions that were carried out during September 1972 through the middle of 1973, by the members of an elite electronic warfare squadron embarked aboard USS Enterprise. The missions culminated in December 1972 with the airstrikes known as Linebacker II

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The White Raven Aug 26, 2015

by John Bushby

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Germany in 1934, the Nazi’s grasp on power is not yet complete. Throughout the country the Gestapo and the Sicherheitsdienst are bent on crushing any opposition. While the penalties for dissention are extreme, there are many who are determined to oppose the tyranny of the new world order. Those whose lives are in danger seek the shadow escape networks that have sprung up to move people out of Germany and on to freedom. No one knows whom to trust, but desperation drives many to take chances. Some are lucky and some fall into the abyss. Rumors abound among the hunted of a network called The White Raven, is it a person or a fairy tale? Wealthy, sophisticated and above suspicion, one woman serves to help the enemies of the Third Reich. If she is found out she will be swept into a concentration camp or even worse, become a pawn in a deadly game of political intrigue by men willing to overthrow Hitler and his henchmen.
Against a background of suspicion and betrayal, Harry Braham is drawn into the heart of Hitler’s Germany to battle against a pair of determined foes in an attempt to save innocent people. In The White Raven, Braham calls upon his friends on both sides of the Rhine to create the necessary subterfuge to make an escape from the clutches of the Gestapo. The White Raven soars from peak to peak of action and adventure in a world that is descending into chaos.

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The Last Voyage of the Paramaribo Queen (A Rick Kasten Espionage Novel) Aug 31, 2014

by John Bushby

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In the summer of 1941, the United States is only months away from being at war. Despite nearly two years of military build-up, America is ill prepared to combat the conflagration that has spread across Europe and onto the Atlantic’s high seas. In Berlin, Admiral Doenitz, head of the Kriegsmarine’s deadly U-Boat force is putting the finishing touches on Operation Neuland which will bottle up America’s merchant fleet as it tries to come o Britain’s aid.
Rick Kasten lost the love of his life to Nazi thugs in Lisbon and has been looking to get even. Once an amateur spy now turned professional, Rick is sent back into the heart of Nazi Germany to torpedo the Doenitz’s plans. While he is there, he has a bit of payback to exact.
The Last Voyage of the Paramaribo Queen sets a stormy course from New York to Lisbon and across the Atlantic to the tranquil Caribbean. But that tranquility is deceptive and short-lived, U-Boats and spies abound on the lush tropical coast of South America. Once again, Rick Kasten finds himself pitted against modern-day pirates who ply the waters of the Spanish Main in search of the black gold that fuels modern warfare.

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The Last Klimt Feb 5, 2019

by John Bushby

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Summer of 1945. Europe in ruins. Stealthily, the human vermin begin to slip from their lairs. Soviet spies, war criminals bent on escape, Haganah operatives, thieves, the profiteers and the con-artists join in the chaos.In Zurich, American intelligence agent Harry Braham picks up the trail of a renegade turncoat bent on making a fortune from art looted by his Nazi friends. Rather than stop the trade in stolen art, Braham’s bosses want him to befriend the man and convince him to send some of his Nazi cronies back into Soviet-occupied Europe as double agents.Back in the States, moves are afoot to close down America’s overseas intelligence services. Once again, Braham finds himself operating alone against familiar adversaries. From Berlin to Moscow to the slopes of the Alps danger stalks everyone in the quest for The Last Klimt.

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Whispers of Peenemunde Sep 19, 2017

by John Bushby

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Harry Braham is back!

In 1940 America is at peace while the Nazi juggernaut tightens around Europe. In Peenemünde, a lonely and windswept peninsula on the Baltic, Hitler’s engineers are perfecting wonder weapons–rockets that can hurtle bombs at targets hundreds of miles away. These weapons are designed to strike without warning.

In New York, American agent Harry Braham is enjoying a sybarite lifestyle when his old friends come calling to tell him that Nazi agents have arrived in the States to try and steal work that is being carried out in American defense plants.

Braham and his friends are soon drawn into the murky world of Nazi fifth columnists who are helping German intelligence steal America’s secrets. From gun battles on the streets of Manhattan to a running sea chase, Whispers of Peenemünde throws a spotlight on the little-known activities of the Nazi underworld in America before Pearl Harbor.

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Shadow Soldiers Jan 7, 2014

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In 1939, as war descends on Europe an American becomes involved in trying to save refugees from the Nazis. From Havana, to Berlin, to Lisbon, ship owner Rick Kasten outraces the Gestapo to get his passenger safely into American waters. With the help of a mysterious Hungarian woman and members of the newly formed OSS, Kasten weaves his way through a tangled web of intrigue and danger to find that he and his friends have become Shadow Soldiers in a new kind of war.

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The Rhinemaiden's Song (A Harry Braham Espionage Novel) Aug 20, 2013

by John Bushby , Milijana Dukovic

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In Germany, as 1935 draws to a close, Hitler is preparing for his conquest of Europe. For those who had read his book, the plan is all there, death and destruction await. The German war machine is gearing up and new and very dangerous weapons are being designed. But Hitler has another surprise for the world. He is staging a grand coming out party with the 1936 summer and winter Olympics as his back drop. As he builds up the propaganda onslaught, the seemingly unbounded success of National Socialism is attracting the interest of financial partners from all over the globe.

In The Rhinemaiden’s Song Harry Braham, ex-fighter pilot and full time espionage agent takes the reader on a twisting path of intrigue and danger. Secrets that the Gestapo and the NKVD want to uncover are only part of the dangers facing Braham. His mentor and old friend Raymond Kingman has disappeared from a luxury train in the snowy Alps and it is Braham’s job to find out what has happened to him and to understand the meaning of The Rhinemaiden’s Song. Along the way he finds beautiful women willing share their secrets and their bodies with him. And, as usual, he has to find out who he can trust.

With Harry Braham once again at the controls, The Rhinemaiden’s Song hurtles into the middle of one of the twentieth century’s epic struggles.

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The Warszaw Express (A Harry Braham Espionage Novel) Jan 2, 2014

by John M. Bushby

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As the First World War draws to a close the forces that will bring about the next cataclysm are already at work. The rising tide of Bolshevism is in collision with nationalists and fascists. The Versailles Treaty failed as it was written and became the blueprint for another, more terrible war. America wants to retreat back across the ocean and yet there are those who know that the next time America needs to be prepared to defend itself.

The Warszaw Express is the story of how an American pilot, Harry Braham is recruited to be a new kind of counterespionage agent, at a time when America was still trying to isolate itself. Just another young man caught up in events far larger than himself, he accepts the new challenge while finding the woman of his dreams. As he moves through France and Germany Harry faces danger with a Russian spy who must either seduce him or kill him. From Paris to Warsaw, the struggle for independence is played out on the Steppe and in the skies over Poland.

With Harry Braham at the controls, the Warszaw Express hurtles into the middle of one of the twentieth century’s epic struggles.

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