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The Adventures of Kevin Krämer in Communist Europe
- The Escape from Communist Europe -
(A Novel about the End Times)
By: Justin Brown (a pen name)
Recommended reading for ages 14 and older.
This is a novel for teens and adults.
This novel contains some violence (such as
gunshots and fights); intense chase scenes;
clean romantic elements (i.e. clean conversations
between a guy and his girlfriend);
and themes
appropriate for teenagers and adults.
You will not find any profanity,
immorality, or gore in this novel.
It is written to edify the reader, and not to provoke
sinful thoughts.
This story is free to be copied, printed, and distributed, but it must remain unaltered.
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Synopsis
Europe has been invaded, the superpower across the sea is no more, and the country of "Baltania" is controlling Europe through communistic puppet governments. Under the oppressive cloud of communism, a small group of underground Christians faces a powerful crime organization bent on their capture and destruction.
Under this heavy, oppressive cloak, Kevin Kramer, a 30-year-old, and Maritza, his attractive, 27-year-old girlfriend, must decide who they will serve as they fall in love with each other, start a romantic relationship, and try to evade the unrelenting and dangerous members of a criminal organization, which seeks to kidnap underground Christians to sell to the secret police.
Together with some friends, Kevin and Maritza must do their best to avoid being captured as they learn to trust God and follow His guiding hand in these last days just before the rise of the Antichrist. This fast-paced story is designed to be fascinating. But, don't just take our word for it...
[Note: Baltania is a fictional country within the Eurasian land mass. At one time, it had a communistic past. During a third world war, communism revived in this country as it's armies conquered Europe. Since we do not want to point fingers at any particular country, we will not name this country or coalition of countries.]
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Chapter 1
"Encountering a Problem"
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Beneath a Forest
Three gangsters, dressed in dark tactical gear, were standing at the bottom of a staircase inside a concrete room, which
was partially filled with crates and boxes stacked against the walls. As the crooks had first entered the room, they had seen that the old, florescent shop lights in the ceiling were on. To the man called Wolf, the humming lights revealed that someone or some people had been down there not long ago. 'Christians were here,' Wolf thought to himself as he looked about the room.
However, where the Christians
had vanished to was still a mystery to the tall, blond, muscular man. It seemed to him that the only way out of
that room was by the stairwell, which he had just descended through.
But, the wooden crates and metal boxes stacked
against the wall got Wolf thinking.
He began walking along the
wall, keeping himself at an arm’s length from the containers. As he walked halfway around the room, Wolf saw nothing amiss until his blue, attentive eyes noticed a thin, dark gap between the edge of a crate and what
appeared to be a door in the concrete wall behind it. ‘What is this?’ Wolf thought as he drew a small LED
flashlight from a pocket.
Shining the flashlight beam
into the gap, he instantly found out that it was a partially-concealed tunnel
entrance. ‘This is no doubt where the Christians went,’ Wolf thought. 'Now, they are trapped. And, I will let none of them escape.'
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[We will now go to the beginning of the story where Kevin Kramer is heading home after finishing his shift at a factory in the fictional town of KĂĽhnburg, Germany.]
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KĂĽhnburg, Germany
It was an overcast and rainy
day. Sheets of precipitation splattered against the pavement and pelted the tan
jacket of Kevin Kramer. The thirty-year-old walked through the puddle-filled
streets of the old town of KĂĽhnburg, Germany, hoping to soon be out of
the rain and back in his apartment where it was dry and warm. He walked with a
slight limp, which he tried to ignore, as he composed a text message on his
smartphone. Engrossed in texting, he didn’t notice an armed, Baltanian soldier
who had just emerged from a brick building where a law office was
headquartered.
Kevin bumped into the soldier
and then quickly backed up, startled at seeing who it was he had ran into. The
soldier glared at him coldly and said, “You idiot, watch where you’re going.”
“I’m sorry, sir,” Kevin said,
swallowing hard, trying not to betray the anger he felt toward that soldier. He
could tell that the man was a few years younger than he and in top shape.
Attacking a soldier would be foolish, regardless of the man’s physical condition.
“What is your name and
occupation?” the Baltanian soldier said in perfect German as he pulled
out a small electronic tablet from trouser pocket. A stylus was clipped onto
the device, and he removed it quickly before pressing a button to activate the tablet.
