The saboteur / Andrew Gross.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250079510 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 401 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, 2017.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Map on lining papers. |
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Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction. Special operations (Military science) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Historical fiction. War fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Stroud Branch | FIC Gross | 31681010066496 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Putting aside his personal needs to join the Norwegian resistance during World War II, engineer Kurt Nordstrum makes a daring escape to England to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis' progress towards building an atomic bomb, in a thriller inspired by a true story. By the best-selling author ofNo Way Back . - Baker & Taylor
Putting his personal life on hold to join the Norwegian resistance during World War II, engineer Kurt Nordstrum makes a daring escape to London to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis' progress towards building an atomic bomb. - McMillan Palgrave
Based on the true story of Operation Gunnersideâthe Britain-sponsored mission that sent Norwegian commandos into the Nazi-occupied Telemark region of their country to destroy the enemyâs nuclear weapons programâNew York Times bestselling author Andrew Grossâs The Saboteur is a riveting World War II thriller of espionage and action.
February, 1943. Both the Allies and the Nazis are closing in on attempts to construct the decisive weapon of the war.
Kurt Nordstrum, an engineer in Oslo, puts his life aside to take up arms against the Germans as part of the Norwegian resistance. After the loss of his fiancée, and with his outfit whittled to shreds, he commandeers a coastal steamer and escapes to England to transmit secret evidence of the Nazisâs progress towards an atomic bomb at an isolated factory in Norway. There, he joins a team of dedicated Norwegians in training in the Scottish Highlands for a mission to disrupt the Nazisâ plans before they advance any further.
Parachuted onto the most unforgiving terrain in Europe, braving the fiercest of mountain storms, Nordstrum and his team attempt the most daring raid of the war, targeting the heavily-guarded factory built on a shelf of rock thought to be impregnable, a mission even they know they likely will not survive. Months later, Nordstrum is called upon again to do the impossible, opposed by both elite Nazi soldiers and a long-standing enemy who is now a local collaboratorâone man against overwhelming odds, with the fate of the war in the balance, but the choice to act means putting the one person he has a chance to love in peril.