By James Holland
ISBN-10: 0593061780
ISBN-13: 9780593061787
Jack Tanner's battle takes him to the treacherous sands of the North African desert.
August, 1942. North Africa. The wasteland battle hangs within the stability. even supposing their retreat has ultimately been halted, morale within the British military is at all-time low. while the commander of the 8th military, common Gott, is killed, it sounds as if foul play is at paintings. An impenetrable Axis undercover agent circuit will be compromising any wish the Allies have of stemming the Nazi tide.
Jack Tanner, recuperating from wounds in a Cairo medical institution, is astonished to obtain a battlefield fee in order to propel him right into a very diversified global while he returns to motion. healthy once again, he reveals himself dealing with the whole onslaught of Rommel's most modern offensive.
In its aftermath, Tanner and his trusty sidekick Sykes are recruited to paintings at the back of the Axis traces in a determined try and take the struggle to the Nazis. yet the murky global of subterfuge, deceit and homicide they locate themselves one million miles clear of the certainties of the battlefield and in some way they have to realize who they could belief within the cat-and-mouse global of counter-espionage.
Hellfire sees Tanner struggling with his method via his most threatening experience but -- person who takes him from the darkish backstreets of Cairo to the open Mediterranean and eventually to at least one of the decisive clashes of the whole warfare -- the conflict of Alamein.
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He was sitting on a couch in the bay window of the chamber, admiring the new rings on his hand. The winter night ticked and rattled at the window panes behind him. ' Kys growled. 'Half a mind is all you'll need for that,' said Ballack, overhearing her as he walked in from the adjoining room. ' Kys turned slowly and glared at the interrogator. In the two months he'd been with them, he'd shown an unfailing ability to wind her up. She felt sorry for him, of course. Ballack had been through an ordeal, and he'd lost the hand, after all.
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Unwerth's vessel was neither a beautiful nor a reliable machine. She heard Belknap's voice, picked up her pace, and then slowed again, realising he was in conversation. Through an open hatch, she spied him, sitting in the forward communal on the other side of a table from Sholto Unwerth. They were chatting and drinking glasses of dry Thracian muskell. Belknap got on with Unwerth better than most of them, with the exception of Kys, who had bonded with the little shipmaster during the perilous hours in Petropolis, and now deflected the worst of the teasing the likes of Carl and Nayl dished out at Unwerth's expense.
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