From the Shadows
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- $14.99
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Publisher Description
In southern France in 1944, Captain Billy Boyle works with French Resistance fighters to protect a Royal Navy Commander, uncovering a wide web of subterfuge and betrayal in the process.
Southern France, 1944: What should be a simple assignment with a Special Operations Executive officer gets complicated quickly as Billy navigates the tensions between Resistance groups in the process of gathering information on Vichy officials and other collaborators who escaped with the retreating Germans. Unexpectedly, the SOE officer has many enemies in the Resistance, linked to the failed Vercors uprising. Diana Seaton, Billy’s wartime lover, crosses paths with him as she and legendary SOE agent Christine Granville embark on a humanitarian mission on behalf of those killed while helping the SOE.
The search for a witness to a deadly explosion leads Billy to the legendary 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a unit made up of Nisei soldiers that became the most highly decorated unit in the history of the US Army.
With sacrifice and betrayal afoot, Billy doesn’t know who he can trust, or how close to death this case may bring him.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Benn's thrilling 17th WWII mystery featuring U.S. Army investigator Billy Boyle (after 2021's Road of Bones), Billy is dispatched to German-occupied Crete in October 1944 to locate Capt. Richard "Dickie" Thorne, who's been helping the Greek partisans there but has been out of radio contact. The head of a Special Operations Executive team in Algiers wants Dickie to serve as his security officer for his trip to southern France to meet Resistance groups, collect information on turncoats who betrayed their comrades to the enemy, and assist the French government in identifying those who escaped with retreating Germans. But blood feuds, subterfuge, and long-held vendettas shadow the SOE mission, beginning with the death of Billy's guide in Crete. Subsequent murder attempts directed at SOE operatives put Boyle and his friends, including his lover, Lady Diana Seaton, who's engaged in a humanitarian mission, in the firing line as they race to thwart an assassination. This richly detailed wartime adventure spotlights acts of barbarity and heroism, bungled leadership, and valiant last charges. Benn reliably entertains. Agent: Paula Munier, Talcott Notch Literary Services.
