Perfect Payback

The Pepperman Mystery Series, Book 3

By: Bill Briscoe

Narrated by: Steve Rausch

When Jim and Laura Pepperman find a musty German Olympic jacket
and an old journal in their attic, they stumble onto a gripping
pre-World War II story of a cousin Jim knows nothing about.

After a career-ending injury forces Hans Pepperman to lose his spot on the 1936 Olympic boxing team, he trades his athletic aspirations for a degree in mechanical engineering and secures his dream job working for the famous Willy Messerschmitt. Tasked to solve the stalling issues of the BF109 fighter plane engine, Hans finds himself smack in the middle of the Abwher Intelligence Service’s radar. Pro-Germany but anti-Nazi, he reluctantly agrees to help flush out the spy leaking secret information on the BF109 engine to foreign agencies . . . and finds himself a suspect of espionage and murder. Unsure who to trust, he must unravel the tangle of lies he’s caught in before he falls prey to the Nazi agenda slowly and stealthily taking over the country he loves.

©2022 Bill Briscoe (P)2022 Bill Briscoe

Great book!

This whole series is fantastic. I especially loved the history this one featured. Briscoe can sure weave a story! Highly recommend!

Clever, smart, and great world building!

I really enjoyed the story Bill Briscoe crafted bringing in WWII history in a creative and suspenseful way. Very uniquely told with a crafted detail and character development that had me reading/listening to this in nearly in one sitting.

I loved the way the modern characters carried the story forward bringing full circle the surprising items found in their attic through to the unexpected twist at the end. I did not see that surprise coming!

Clever, smart, and it left me thinking about it weeks later, which is hard to do. I’ve already read two books since and I’m still absorbed in the world Bill created in Perfect Payback. Well done!

A Must Listen

Steve Rausch’s narration of Briscoe’s Perfect Payback is to a level that makes you feel as if you are in the very room with Hans and the other characters who make up this thrilling story set in 1936-1937 Germany. I’m amazed that all the narration is done by one person. Excellent job--to the author and the narrator.