A compulsively readable blend of romance and drama based on actual events in Britain and France leading up to D-day in 1944
Matthew Hammond is a British military officer posted to the European theater during World War II. He sustained a serious injury on the front lines, so bad, in fact, that it cost him a lung. Now he is back in England, unable to fight, but he continues to serve his country by training new Resistance fighters.
One of the recruits under his tutelage is Madeleine, a spellbinding, impassioned French Canadian with eyes of "burnished whiskey." Despite protocols discouraging romance, they are deeply in love, and Matthew is torn about putting Madeleine's life in danger. He already has one tragic affair with a Resistance fighter under his belt—his former lover, Celestine, was killed because her assassination of a German doctor went awry.
But the Allies are mustering all their resources for crucial beach landings in Normandy, and Matthew knows his unit will need to play a role. It will be a very dangerous mission: parachuting in behind the Nazi line. As Madeleine progresses through the training with her fellow recruits, Matthew can only hope that luck will guide her through when the drop finally arrives.
GenreDystopia, Mystery and Thriller, Action and Adventure
Length14 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byGildart Jackson
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJun 2, 2015
LanguageEnglish
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About the author
Peter Watson
Peter Watson has
been a senior editor at the London Sunday
Times, a New York correspondent of the London
Times, a columnist for the London
Observer, and a contributor to the New
York Times. He has published three exposes on the world of art and
antiquities, and is the author of several books of cultural and intellectual
history. From 1997 to 2007 he was a research associate at the McDonald Institute
for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He lives in London.View all by Peter Watson
