The Blood of Others

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781801108478 Author(s): Graham Hurley Format: Hardcover Year: 2023 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Pages: 400 Series: Spoils of War

Description: The new blockbuster thriller from Graham Hurley, The Blood of Others 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.Dieppe, August 1942. A catastrophe no headline dared admit.Plans are underway for the boldest raid yet on Nazi-occupied France. Over six thousand men will storm ashore to take the port of Dieppe. Lives will change in an instant A? both on the beaches and in distant capitals.Annie Wrenne, working at Lord MountbattenA?s cloak-and-dagger Combined Operations headquarters, is privy to the top secret plans for the daring cross-Channel raid.Young Canadian journalist George Hogan, protege of influential Lord Beaverbrook, faces a crucial assignment that will test him to breaking point.And Abwehr intelligence officer Wilhelm Schultz is baiting a trap to lure thousands of Allied troops to their deathsA?¦Three lives linked by Operation Jubilee: the Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942. Over six thousand men will storm the heavily defended French beaches.Less than half of them will make it back alive.The blockbuster SPOILS OF WAR non-chronological collection features compelling recurring characters whose fragmented lives mirror the war that shattered the globe. For fans of Philip Kerr and Robert Harris.'A masterful and fascinating historical thriller. ' LoveReading on The Blood of OthersReviews for Graham Hurley:'Historical fiction of a high order' The Times'Tense, absorbing and faultlessly plotted' Sunday Times'Beautifully constructed... This is one of Hurley's finest' Daily Mail'Capable and understated characterization' Publishers Weekly

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