A quick read. Not the best of Higgins, but still a book loaded with quick action, numerous suspects, red herrings and false leads.
An adventure thriller about a ex-WWII commando who returns to the town on a Greek island that was the site of a failed mission to identify the real traitor who's betrayal of the operation to the Germans result in the execution of numerous townspeople in retaliation.
Something was pulling Hugh Lomax back into his past. During World War II, when the Greek Islands were occupied by the Germans, young Captain Lomax came to Kryos to destroy a Nazi stronghold.Lomax was captured, but managed to escape. What he did not know was that the mission had been betrayed and innocent men & women executed. To this day the people of Kryos believed him a traitor. Now he wants to find the guilty ones.
