**What happens to the human psyche when every day you go to work might be your last?** The debut novel from Kim Hughes, the most highly decorated bomb disposal operator serving in the British Army. Perfect for fans of Andy McNab, Frank Gardner, James Swallow and Henry Porter. Praise for Kim
Curtain of death: a clandestine operations novel. BK # 3
โ Scribed by W.E.B. Griffin
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 217 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 069841053X
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โฆ Synopsis
From #1 New York Times -bestselling author W. E. B. Griffin comes the dramatic third novel in the Clandestine Operations series about the Cold War, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency--and a new breed of warrior.
January 1946: Two WACs leave an officers' club in Munich, and four Soviet NKGB agents kidnap them at knifepoint in the parking lot and shove them in the back of an ambulance. That is the agents' first mistake, and their last. One of the WACs, a blond woman improbably named Claudette Colbert, works for the new Directorate of Central Intelligence, and three of the men end up dead and the fourth wounded.
The "incident," however, will send shock waves rippling up and down the line and have major repercussions not only for her, but for her boss, James Cronley, Chief DCI-Europe, and for everybody involved in their still-evolving enterprise. For, though the Germans may have been defeated, Cronley and his company are on the front...
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