Operation Napoleon
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4.2 • 27 Ratings
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- £1.99
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Publisher Description
1945: a lost German bomber crashes on the Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland.
Inexplicably, in the midst of World War Two, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist, never to be seen again.
1999, the US Army is secretively trying to remove an aeroplane from the Vatnajökull glacier.
Two young Icelanders become involved but end up paying with their lives. Before they are captured, one of the two contacts his sister, Kristin. Her quest to discover his fate takes her on a long and hazardous journey in search of the key to the riddle about Operation Napoleon.
WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER.
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Near the outset of this kinetic thriller from Indridason (Jar City), Krist n, a lawyer with the Iceland Foreign Ministry in Reykjav k, receives a phone call from her younger brother, El as, who tells her he's part of a team on its way to the remote Vatnaj kull glacier. Almost immediately, Krist n finds herself being pursued by assassins tied to a covert American military operation to retrieve the wreckage of a German plane that crashed on the glacier in the closing days of WWII with, oddly, German and U.S. servicemen aboard. Dismissing official disinformation about the mission's purpose, Krist n flings herself into the thick of a black ops caper to uncover a secret so unsavory that the American military would kill to keep it quiet. Indridason takes an invigoratingly fresh approach to one of the best known conspiracy theories about Nazi and American relations. The clich -riddled translation won't stop readers from racing to learn the final secret.
