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'Historical fiction of a high order'
The Times Germany, October 1944: Dozens of cities lie in ruins. Enemy armies are at the gates. For the Thousand Year Reich, time is running out.Desperate to avoid the humiliation of unconditional surrender, German intelligence launch
Operation Finisterre - a last-ditch plan to enable Hitler to deny the savage logic of a war on two fronts and bluff his way to the negotiating table.
Success depends on two individuals:
Stefan Portisch, a German naval officer washed ashore on the coast of Spain after the loss of his U-boat, and
Hector Gomez, an ex-FBI detective, planted by Director J. Edgar Hoover in the middle of the most secret place on earth: the American atomic bomb complex.
Both men will find themselves fighting for survival as Operation Finisterre plays itself out.
Finisterre is part of the
SPOILS OF WAR Collection, a thrilling, beguiling blend of fact and fiction born of some of the most tragic, suspenseful, and action-packed events of World War II. From the mind of highly acclaimed thriller author
GRAHAM HURLEY, this blockbuster non-chronological collection allows the reader to explore Hurley's masterful storytelling in any order, with compelling recurring characters whose fragmented lives mirror the war that shattered the globe.
About the author
Graham Hurley is a documentary maker and a novelist. For the last two decades he's written full-time, penning nearly fifty books. Two made the short list for the Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year, while Finisterre – the first in the Spoils of War collection – was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Award. Graham lives in East Devon with his lovely wife, Lin.
Follow Graham at grahamhurley.co.uk
Summary
Operation Finisterre – a last-ditch Nazi plan to bring the allies to the negotiating table – is centre stage in Graham Hurley's blockbuster World War II thriller.
