Cold Harbour

By Jack Higgins,

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Along with all his other troubles, OSS agent Craig Osborne is sure he will suffer a watery death in the English Channel and is thankful to be picked up by a German torpedo boat

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I love books where I cannot guess the outcome, and Cold Harbour is one of the best. The stakes are high for both the Allies and the Germans. You’re never really sure what will happen next, right down to the finish.

It’s May 1944 and excitement is running high with the Allies and the Germans. The Allies want to know about the German Atlantic Wall and Rommel’s plans to defeat the invasion, and for the Germans, where the Allies will land.

The Allies, like the Germans, used aircraft and U-boats, in carrying out their spy operations. In Cold Harbour,…

During the war, Britain and Germany assumed the identity of each other.

The Brits, for example, used at least two German Uboats that were operated by the British Navy. Cold Harbour starts just before the invasion. In it, a U.S. agent and assassin is sent to France, where he infiltrates a German High Command briefing about the Germany’s defence of its Atlantic Wall. His challenge now is to get this vital information to the Allies.

Jack Higgins is a master of suspense, every chapter leaves you hanging from start to finish. It’s a side of the war most of us…

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