Lost in the Ukraine

About the Book

This is a story of a man, David Bennett, who was mistakenly kidnapped by Russian operatives in New York City. He was flown to Moscow. Upon finding out they had the wrong man, they covered it up by sending him to a work camp south of Kiev in Ukraine. There, he meets a woman, Leda Miefski, who is a Russian political prisoner. She went through college in America as her father was a diplomat from the Russian government. Her uncle had defected to England, and the Russians had no one else to punish, so they punished her father, mother, and her. They escaped the work farm, making a daring escape. They keep their relationship platonic as they knew that to do otherwise would take away their chances of escaping to America. It takes four years for them to make their escape, and many things happen to them. They leave Ukraine and finally end up in Latvia, where they escape to America.

About the Author

William Post is the author of thirty-one novels of a variety of genres. Most are westerns that include the Civil War. Historical facts are mixed with the fictitious characters of the era. Post’s flagship is the trilogy, The Mystery of Table Mountain. Post was reared in West Texas, educated at Texas A.&M. and served in the U. S. Navy. He is a professional civil engineer and surveyor. He retired as the Chief Engineer of the Long Beach Water Department. Taking an early retirement he moved to Northern California and began his writing career. In his early working years, he was a surveyor with the Southern Pacific Railroad. This took him to the wilds of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California where he picked up the lore of those areas. Post is an evangelical Christian and the thread of his religion is woven into the fabric of his stories.