A .38, a nip of gin and sensational legs get Depression-era private investigator Maggie Sullivan out of most scrapes β until a stranger threatens to bust her nose, sheβs hauled in on suspicion of his murder and she finds herself in the cross-hairs of a crime boss with connections at City Hall. Mov
A Game for Heroes
β Scribed by Jack Higgins
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 238 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0007384807
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β¦ 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 β 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 behindβ¦
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