One Final Turn
An Electra McDonnell Novel
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- USD 14.99
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- USD 14.99
Publisher Description
The fifth and final installment in the Electra McDonnell series brings safecracker Ellie on a mission across World War II-era Europe to Lisbon, Portugal to rescue a key group of escaped POWs.
Ellie McDonnell is about to embark on her most perilous mission yet: go to Lisbon, Portugal to save her beloved cousin Toby who has reportedly escaped from a German prisoner of war camp. Toby has been missing since the Battle of Dunkirk and Ellie had all but lost hope in ever seeing him again until Major Ramsey, the British military intelligence officer she had been working closely with over the past few months, shared the news he’d intercepted.
Nothing will stop Ellie from finding her cousin, not even the awkward experience of having to travel to an unknown country with Ramsey after he’d dismissed her for being untrustworthy just as she’d realized she had fallen in love with him. Under the supervision of Captain Archie Blandings, a charming intelligence officer based in Lisbon, Ellie meets with undercover operatives to track down where Toby might be hiding from the Nazis and whether they are too late to safely recover him, all the while fighting her feelings for Ramsey and the incessant burden of war looming around her at every turn.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Burglar-turned-spy Electra McDonnell plunges deep into her complicated past in the satisfying fifth and final series entry from Weaver (after Locked in Pursuit). Before Electra was born, her life was already convoluted: her father was murdered, and her pregnant mother was convicted of killing him. Electra was subsequently raised by criminals before the British military recruited her to run intelligence during WWII. It's in that capacity that Electra has learned that her father was a German spy, which may have been the reason he was killed. Furthermore, her cousin Toby, who'd been captured by the Germans early in the war, is still alive and headed for Lisbon. Electra is sent to Portugal to track Toby down under the supervision of a new handler, since her former one, Major Ramsey—for whom Electra is nursing romantic feelings—dismissed her from his team for fumbling a case. Weaver manages to tie up the series' loose ends without shortchanging the core chase plot. Readers will miss Electra and her cohort, but Weaver has given them a worthy send-off.
