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In wartime Egypt, can a British submarine commander trust his Italian lover?
1941: The teeming city of Alexandria is almost under siege by the Afrika Korps. A vortex of ancient loves and murderous intrigues, Alexandria is the Royal Navy's major Eastern Mediterranean base. But Italian frogmen and their so-called 'human torpedoes' are posing a lethal threat to British warships.
Hardly the time or place for a British submarine commander to fall in...
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She operates in the enemy's midst-but the true danger is from one of her own . . . A pulse-pounding WWII thriller by an author whose "action passages are superb" (The Observer).
At the London headquarters of 'F' Section SOE-Special Operations Executive-they're sure Rosie Ewing is dead, shot by the Gestapo while running from a train taking her to Ravensbrück concentration camp.
But they shouldn't be so sure.
Left for dead, Rosie has...
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In this stunning adventure set in war-torn France-a British agent finds herself in Nazi territory-and unsure about who to trust . . .
It's the spring of 1944 and Rosie Ewing is returning to German-occupied France, by air, this time.
She's carrying a radio, half a million francs, a pistol, and two cyanide capsules to Finistere in north-west Brittany.
With D-Day looming, Rosie fears that the man who'll be meeting her on the ground tonight...
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A riveting prequel to the WWII espionage series featuring British agent Rosie Ewing, in this "meticulously researched war novel" (Len Deighton).
Late autumn, 1942: A group codenamed Countryman are briefed by London to get a certain German out of Vichy's hands. What they don't know is that they are being sold out to the Gestapo.
Of course, they are constantly aware of betrayal as a looming danger. All too many SOE networks have been blown,...
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World War Two is almost upon them. But first the submariners must face another danger…
As the shadow of Nazism descends on Europe, Britain at last begins to prepare her defences. Trials start for a new class of submarine in the mouth of the Clyde.
Royal Navy submariner Rufus Chalk, on board as an observer, has misgivings. There are technical problems, small enough in themselves but together possibly dangerous.
On this first dive in the open sea,...
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A lone agent is sent into occupied Paris to find the mistress of a high-level Nazi officer in this edge-of-your-seat WWII espionage adventure.
When two agents are arrested in Paris, SOE agent Rosie Ewing is sent to rescue them. Also in Paris in the summer of 1945 is a woman called Jacqueline, already known to Rosie and now the mistress of a highly placed SD officer. Rosie's brief is to find Jacqueline, and through her discover where the two...
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Danger and bravery at sea from thriller-master Alexander Fullerton.
It is early autumn 1943 and a German U-boat supply ship is sailing under heavy escort from Le Havre to the Atlantic. A mixed force of torpedo boats from Allied Coastal Forces is ordered to intercept and sink her.
Navigator Ben Quarry has other worries. His girlfriend, Rosie, is set on returning to occupied France as an SOE agent, and his former mistress, now the wife of his...
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The first thriller in the WWII series featuring SOE agent Rosie Ewing, a "meticulously researched war novel" (Len Deighton).
Summer 1943: Rosie Ewing is an agent of SOE-Special Operations Executive-and a "pianist," Resistance slang for radio operator. Their average life expectancy is six weeks.
But Rosie is brighter than most, well aware of the consequences of a second's carelessness, or bad luck, or treachery. Or a fellow agent crumbling...
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What price for the treasures of the Aphrodite Cargo?
Tom Clinker, a former wartime member of the Special Boat Squadron, is in intensive care after a savage beating.
With the hospital being surveyed constantly, the watcher's interest is transferred to Mike Clinker – who from his dying father's ravings has picked up fragments of a story about a cargo of Nazi loot, lost off the Greek island of Aphos forty years previously.
Knowledge of the Aphrodite...
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