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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...
2) Surface!
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The classic novel of submarine warfare.
Written with a blazing intensity, it is a stirring and compellingly authentic journey through the greatest conflict in history, drawing upon the author's first-hand experience.
Surface! is Fullerton's first novel, released in 1953 and based on his own life as a submarine torpedo officer: a tale of one crew's hardship, camaraderie and great daring on board a British submarine serving during the Second World...
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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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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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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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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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The second in the gripping historical Andy Holt Naval Thrillers series.
Summer 1940: Andy Holt is second mate on the SS Barranquilla, sailing from the Clyde to Cuba. Though the outward journey may be perilous, it's the homeward trip where the real danger lies: U-boats prefer their victims deep-laden and full of cargo.
There have been heavy losses off Norway and Dunkirk – the vital priority is for escorting destroyers to counter the invasion threat....
9) Submariner
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An epic Second World War adventure from the author of the Nicholas Everard naval thrillers, who "recreates [life at sea] with authenticity and vigor" (Historical Novel Society).
As captain of the submarine Ursa, Lieutenant Mike Nicholson's mission is to disrupt the flow of war supplies to Rommel's Afrika Korps. Although Ursa is small, slow and often out-gunned, she succeeds, on her seventeenth Mediterranean cruise, in sinking a German tank-transporter.
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10) Special Dynamic
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The Spetsnaz have secretly infiltrated deep beyond NATO borders.
Former SBS Captain Ollie Lyle is assigned to a civilian expedition into Norwegian Lapland, where a nationalist movement's actions have seemingly escalated into terrorism and murder.
As Lyle and his team penetrate further into the icy interior, they discover the terrible truth behind the killings: a vicious Russian undercover operation serving as a prelude to a full-scale invasion.
What...
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An incredibly dangerous and secret mission in a tumultuous Syria.
Charlie Swale of the SAS would never have dreamed of betraying his country. But nor could he ever have imagined that the Soviets would be able to dupe him.
Charlie had been a hero in his day. Then he'd hit the bottle. And then he'd hit hard times. So when he is given the chance to redeem himself in a top-secret SBS mission to Syria, he knows he has to pull it off.
Fuelled by a new...
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From a British author known for "superb" action sequences, a WWII navel thriller set during the German campaign against Scandinavia (The Observer).
Everard is returns in a new global conflict.
British Captain Nick Everard's destroyer is crippled by Nazi gunfire in the German invasion of Norway. Nothing seems able to stop the advance across Europe and the Royal Navy is in a tight situation.
Desperately attempting to repair his ship hidden...
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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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Nicholas Everard is ready to run the gauntlet in his most dangerous mission yet…
The menacing bulk of the German battlecruiser Goeben lurks in the Golden Horn of Constantinople. It is vital that she is destroyed, and the plan is to send an E-class submarine in through the Dardanelles to sink her unawares.
But it has been two years since an Allied submarine passed through the narrow straits successfully, littered as they are with minefields, nets...
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A top secret mission to change the course of the Falklands War.
In the war-torn, storm-swept South Atlantic, a small band of highly-trained SBS experts embarks on a vital secret mission: to sabotage Argentina's stock of deadly Exocet missiles. The course of the Falklands War depends on their success.
One man, Andy MacEwan, an Anglo-Argentine civilian recruited to the team as guide and interpreter, has more than the mission on his mind. His brother...
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A young sailor with the weight of the world on his shoulders, a brother in the line of fire, and the greatest naval battle of all time…
Jutland, 1916: In the icy waters of the North Sea, the Royal Navy awaits the challenge of the Kaiser's High Sea Fleet.
Sub-lieutenant Nick Everard could never have imagined the terror he would face as his destroyer races to launch its torpedoes into the blazing guns of a horizon obscured by dreadnoughts.
But...
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The vivid retelling of one of the most famous battles in naval history. On the last day of August 1591, Sir Richard Grenville in his famous galleon, the Revenge, must fight alone for fifteen hours against a fleet of Spanish galleons, each three times her size. Grenville, cousin of Sir Walter Raleigh and lifelong rival of Sir Francis Drake, is a soldier, sailor, and above all, servant of the Queen. Can he seize the moment in a supreme gamble? He must...
18) Final Dive
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A priceless cargo at the bottom of the ocean tempts the brave, and the foolish…In the depths of the Atlantic lies a cargo containing both gold and atomic secrets, upon which a Ukrainian retrieval vessel has sinister designs. They are not the only crew with hope of reaching the stranded treasure, and the race to the bottom is one of unconscionable risk and reward. But in the thrill and adventure of the dive, will they forget that to reach the ocean...
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From a British author known for "superb" action sequences, a WWII navel thriller set during the Battle of the Java Sea between Allied and Japanese navies (The Observer).
1942. As Japanese invasion fleets sweep across the Pacific, a handful of Allied ships prepare for a last-ditch battle at Surabaya in the Java Sea. Not only are the Allied forces doomed to defeat: any surviving ships will be trapped, since escape routes are blocked by the enemy.
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