"One expedition... Two archaeologists. One... German, the other... Russian. One Objective: To discover the truth behind the 1908 Siberian Tunguska explosion." The first novel in the Tissue of Deception Trilogy, titled "Aktion Donnerwaffe"... (Operation Thunderweapon)... is set in 1937. The story opens in Germany where the National Socialist Party is now firmly in power, and moves into Russia, in the middle of the Great Stalinist Purge. Two of History's most evil men are engaged in a cynical game of Double-cross. ReichsFührer-SS Heinrich Himmler, and Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, Peoples Commissar for Internal Affairs... Head of the Soviet NKVD, are both seeking information concerning the 1908 "Tunguska Event"... the cataclysmically destructive explosion in Central Siberia.Both men wish to establish if there might conceivably be some undiscovered weapon capability which would be of significant advantage of their respective régimes. Deep in Central Siberia, three ancient volumes, written in some completely unknown language have been discovered by a peasant in the area where the devastating explosion of 1908 - the so-called "Tunguska Event" occurred. These volumes have been lodged in the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in Minsk. No-one in the Soviet Academic circles has been able to make the slightest sense of them. Word of the existence of these volumes has come to the attention of the German High Command in Berlin… and, more specifically, has attracted the attention of ReichsFührer-SS Heinrich Himmler, who is fascinated by mysticism and the paranormal. Into the turmoil that is Central and Eastern Europe at this time, is thrust the series Heroine, a young, German female archaeologist, Karyn von Seringen; appointed at the highest level in Berlin. She journeys deep into the Soviet Union; ostensibly in a mutual research capacity brokered with the Russians through Diplomatic channels under the tentative Germano-Soviet Accord, but, with a hidden agenda hatched by Himmler who has chosen to code-name his part in this intrigue as: "Aktion Donnerwaffe,"... (Operation Thunderhammer)...  requiring the young German archaeologist to covertly scrutinize any such findings for any intimation… in accordance with the criteria specified by the Abwehr Intelligence Organization… of any data discovered at the site of the explosion which could possibly have any Military significance beneficial to the Reich. Unbeknown to Berlin; a young Russian "archaeologist"... Aleksandr Anatoly Sergeyev has been similarly assigned a near-identical hidden agenda by Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, The Commissar of the NKVD… The Main Directorate for State Security. The German female archaeologist is skilled in deciphering ancient languages. Her Russian counterpart is chosen for his in-depth knowledge of the area. Each has a hidden agenda... to secure any discovered information for the sole benefit of their respective régime... and then, to liquidate their opposite number.