I invite you to take a look at “Jinnik� a Cold war story the likes of you have not heard.
Fear is like a drug... you can become addicted to it... I did.
We were an anomaly, the four of us; Heiney, Turk, Andrea and I. We were all veterans of more than four years in the field and we could count our combined border crossings in the hundreds, two of us even had sanctioned kills. When we arrived at the Scheuner I was told the normal useful lifespan of an operator was 3 years, we were all working on five.
The tension and pressure of our operations were every bit as intense as combat and none of us knew how it was changing us and shaping us into something most of us, given a choice, would chose not to become.
Written by an actual team member, Jinnik is based on the true story of an 8 man HUMINT team (Human Intelligence team - feet on the ground in hostile territory) who worked behind the Iron Curtain between 1979 and 1989.
Set in a time and place remembered only by those who survived and a row of upside down shot glasses behind an old bar; this exhilarating and previously untold tale of the Cold War is relayed to us by the only Operator to ever return from hell and drink from his own overturned glass.
Fear is like a drug... you can become addicted to it... I did.
We were an anomaly, the four of us; Heiney, Turk, Andrea and I. We were all veterans of more than four years in the field and we could count our combined border crossings in the hundreds, two of us even had sanctioned kills. When we arrived at the Scheuner I was told the normal useful lifespan of an operator was 3 years, we were all working on five.
The tension and pressure of our operations were every bit as intense as combat and none of us knew how it was changing us and shaping us into something most of us, given a choice, would chose not to become.
Written by an actual team member, Jinnik is based on the true story of an 8 man HUMINT team (Human Intelligence team - feet on the ground in hostile territory) who worked behind the Iron Curtain between 1979 and 1989.
Set in a time and place remembered only by those who survived and a row of upside down shot glasses behind an old bar; this exhilarating and previously untold tale of the Cold War is relayed to us by the only Operator to ever return from hell and drink from his own overturned glass.
Excerpts and Photographs from Jinnik are at ..