Every Second Counts
book 1 in the Armistice series
- Format:
- MP3
- Protection:
- Digital watermark
- Published:
- November 15, 2022
- Narrator:
- Russell Bentley
Delivery:
Immediately by email
Description of Every Second Counts
1940. Dunkirk is over? Will Britain fight on or talk peace?
Fugitive and Hitler admirer, Billy Houston, craves a Nazi-run Britain. Needing money and intent on burglary, it ends in murder. But he’s in luck, his victim has in his possession the entire anti-invasion plans for Southern Britain, this while Armistice talks are slated to take place on the Isle of Wight.
A desperate Billy makes contact with Rudi Graebner, a German naval officer and spy embedded in the Spanish Embassy. The two have nothing in common - they instinctively take a dislike to each other and trust is at a premium. But even so, they must work together to get the plans to the German delegation, as Billy wonders if he's at as much risk from his glory-seeking German agent as the MI5 pursuit.
Adam Strachan, Deputy Director of Counter-Espionage at MI5, faces his greatest challenge. Working with detectives from Scotland Yard, he must find Billy Houston and the National Defence Plans. But his quarry enjoys an amazing run of luck. Time after time, they evade capture by a whisker.
Will Houston and Graebner succeed, or fall out? If they do, Hitler will be able to make demands to so weaken the country, it will leave Britain weak and wide open, very soon, to a future German invasion.
Perfect for fans of Ken Follett, Alan Furst and Samuel Marquis.
Fugitive and Hitler admirer, Billy Houston, craves a Nazi-run Britain. Needing money and intent on burglary, it ends in murder. But he’s in luck, his victim has in his possession the entire anti-invasion plans for Southern Britain, this while Armistice talks are slated to take place on the Isle of Wight.
A desperate Billy makes contact with Rudi Graebner, a German naval officer and spy embedded in the Spanish Embassy. The two have nothing in common - they instinctively take a dislike to each other and trust is at a premium. But even so, they must work together to get the plans to the German delegation, as Billy wonders if he's at as much risk from his glory-seeking German agent as the MI5 pursuit.
Adam Strachan, Deputy Director of Counter-Espionage at MI5, faces his greatest challenge. Working with detectives from Scotland Yard, he must find Billy Houston and the National Defence Plans. But his quarry enjoys an amazing run of luck. Time after time, they evade capture by a whisker.
Will Houston and Graebner succeed, or fall out? If they do, Hitler will be able to make demands to so weaken the country, it will leave Britain weak and wide open, very soon, to a future German invasion.
Perfect for fans of Ken Follett, Alan Furst and Samuel Marquis.
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The book Every Second Counts can be found in the following categories:
- Fiction > Thriller / suspense fiction > Espionage and spy thriller
- Fiction > Thriller / suspense fiction > Political / legal thriller
- Fiction > Adventure / action fiction > Historical adventure fiction
- Fiction > Adventure / action fiction > War, combat and military adventure fiction > Second World War fiction
- Place qualifiers > Europe > Western Europe > France
- Time period qualifiers > c 1500 onwards to present day > 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 > Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950 > c 1940 to c 1949 > c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period)