Double Cross Blind - Softcover

Ross, Joel

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ISBN 10: 0340836644 ISBN 13: 9780340836644

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, 2006

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In December, 1941 the Blitz is at its height. London is shuddering under the relentless assault of German bombs. Across the Atlantic, Roosevelt seems determined to keep the US out of the war. Tom Wall, an American soldier wounded while fighting with the Allies in Crete, wakes up in a London hospital. Physically weakened and suffering from combat fatigue, Tom is aware only of a burning need to find his brother, a diplomat also in London. But British Intelligence has other ideas. They want Wall to help secure a national asset - the Double Cross System, an intelligence operation now at risk from a German masterspy. Amid the bombsites and blood-stained alleys of blacked-out London, Tom pursues a quest, whose goals are constantly shifting, in pursuit of an enemy whose identity is ever changing. Meanwhile a Japanese war fleet is steaming towards Pearl Harbor ...

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December 1, 1941
It is seven days before the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Days that are numbered for Sondegger, a Nazi spy captured in London while on a mission to take down the Twenty Committee, a German network of spies the British have turned.
For American Tom Wall, the days have run together as he awakens to find himself locked in a British military asylum. Wounded and shell-shocked, all he knows is that his brother, Earl, betrayed his unit in Crete, causing one of the bloodiest massacres of the war.
MI5 releases Tom by way of a bargain. Pretend to be Earl and convince Sondegger to reveal how and where he has arranged to transmit his intelligence to Germany. Fail, and spend the rest of the war in jail. Succeed, and Tom, though still considered a danger to himself, will be allowed to leave the hospital to find Earl--who may well be a Nazi informant.
But Sondegger proves himself to be a formidable opponent. Even as he surrendered himself to the British, he knew the Japanese fleet had sailed for Pearl Harbor. The question is: Who will gain more if the Allies prevent the attack? Sondegger, MI5, the OSS, Tom, and Earl's wife, Harriet, all have different answers. Unable to trust anyone, Tom attempts to save the Twenty Committee and stop the attack on Pearl Harbor as the clock counts down.
In his electrifying debut, Joel Ross combines political insights with the high stakes and fast pace of classic espionage fiction, and he delivers what others have not in more than a decade--a Nazi spy novel that you cannot put down.

About the Author:

Joel Ross lives in Maine, USA, with his wifeand son. He is currently working on his second novel.

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