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This s a great adventure story that takes the reader through the underworld of World War Two espionage. A good sequel to The Eagle Has Landed.
Sequel to The Eagle Has Landed.
Colonel Kurt Steiner, the brilliant and compassionate German paratroop officer believed to have been shot dead during his abortive assassination attemp on the Prime Minister, actually survives his wounds and is spirited away to the Tower of London, where he is held a secret prisoner. When word of Steiner's whereabouts reaches Germany, dreaded Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler arranges a seemingly honorable scenario: the rescue of Steiner from the Tower and his triumphant return to the Fatherland.
But Himmler has less than a hero's welcome ready for the man who failed to carry out what Himmler hoped would be the greatest coup of the war. And the only man capable of meeting such a seemingly impossible challenge? Liam Devlin: IRA gunman, poet and scholoar, whose infamously legendary feats of bravery and daring never cease to amaze those who seek his assistance.
Brigidier Dougal Munro of British Intelligence, as devious and cold-hearted as any Naza counterpart, devises a deadly game of cat and mouse, but he meets his match in General Walter Schellenberg, a brilliant soldier who is no Nazi, appointed by Himmler to mastermind the rescue attempt.
With the help of old friend and fellow IRA member Michael Ryan and his gentle and lovely niece Mary, Nazi sympathizers Sir Maxwell and Lavinia Shaw, and American fighter pilot Asa Vaughan, who fought the Finns against Russia but now finds himself trapped in the George Washington Legion of the SS, the devilishly cunning Devlin prepares to find and rescue Steiner--whose fate as a German hero may be even more dangerous than as a prisoner of war. And when an unexpected and truly deadly conspriacy emerges as Himmler's real plans bubble to the surface, it's up to Devlin and Steiner to aid Schellenberg in preventing his country and the rest of the world from falling into the hands of a man even more insane and twisted than the Fuhrer himself...
Colonel Kurt Steiner, the brilliant and compassionate German paratroop officer believed to have been shot dead during his abortive assassination attemp on the Prime Minister, actually survives his wounds and is spirited away to the Tower of London, where he is held a secret prisoner. When word of Steiner's whereabouts reaches Germany, dreaded Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler arranges a seemingly honorable scenario: the rescue of Steiner from the Tower and his triumphant return to the Fatherland.
But Himmler has less than a hero's welcome ready for the man who failed to carry out what Himmler hoped would be the greatest coup of the war. And the only man capable of meeting such a seemingly impossible challenge? Liam Devlin: IRA gunman, poet and scholoar, whose infamously legendary feats of bravery and daring never cease to amaze those who seek his assistance.
Brigidier Dougal Munro of British Intelligence, as devious and cold-hearted as any Naza counterpart, devises a deadly game of cat and mouse, but he meets his match in General Walter Schellenberg, a brilliant soldier who is no Nazi, appointed by Himmler to mastermind the rescue attempt.
With the help of old friend and fellow IRA member Michael Ryan and his gentle and lovely niece Mary, Nazi sympathizers Sir Maxwell and Lavinia Shaw, and American fighter pilot Asa Vaughan, who fought the Finns against Russia but now finds himself trapped in the George Washington Legion of the SS, the devilishly cunning Devlin prepares to find and rescue Steiner--whose fate as a German hero may be even more dangerous than as a prisoner of war. And when an unexpected and truly deadly conspriacy emerges as Himmler's real plans bubble to the surface, it's up to Devlin and Steiner to aid Schellenberg in preventing his country and the rest of the world from falling into the hands of a man even more insane and twisted than the Fuhrer himself...
As Hilter pursues WWII, netrayel and treachery reach the highest level of the Third Reich. Germans intelligence knows that paratroop officer Colonel Steiner survived Operation Eagle, the bungled, top=secret assassination attepmpt on Churchill, and is now a POW somewhere in London. Reichsfuhrer Himmler wants him back--at any cost.
This book covers "the deadly games of treason played in the innermost sanctums of Nazi Germany."
This book covers "the deadly games of treason played in the innermost sanctums of Nazi Germany."
One of jack Higgin's best reads
In this wonderful sequel to The Eagle Has Landed, Higgins weaves a story around a Hitler who, though being constantly isolated and growing more insane daily, continues down his path to distruction of the Third Reich.
A fast paced sequel to the WWII spy thriller "the Eagle has Landed". Amid the chaos and treachery of the collapsing 3rd Reich, Nazi operatives plot to free a capture Nazi spy from a London POW so he can complete his mission: assassinate Winston Churchill.
As an increasingly isolated and insance Hitler pursues his hopeless war, betrayal and treachery reach the highest level of the Third Reich. A riveting tale told at a lightning pace, The Eagle Has Flown sweeps us into the drama and suspense of the war behind the war---the deadly games of treason played in the innermost sanctums of Nazi Germany.
