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A Game for Heroes

✍ Scribed by Jack Higgins


Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Weight
238 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0007384807

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Combat, love and sacrifice from the twilight of the war in this classic thriller of WW2 adventure. The occupied Channel Islands: the last outpost of German resistance at the end of a long and savage conflict. Most feared among them: St Pierre. The mid-Atlantic fortress chosen by a crazed SS Commandant for his suicidal stand. With Berlin on the verge of capture, it is the most sensitive mission of the war. An end game that calls for a hero – with something else besides. A game for a battle-hardened veteran ready to lay down his life for his birthplace. And for the woman he left behind…


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