After a summer of watching sporting spectaculars, I am surprised to find that I have managed to complete almost fifty thousand words of my latest manuscript, another historical fiction novel entitled RISK. Set in France during WWII, it follows the adventures of a young soldier as he strives to avenge the deaths of his brothers. I am writing the novel as a sequel to LES RUINES, published earlier this year in paperback and e-book formats.
The Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) recruits a young
soldier following
a dramatic escape from the horrors of war
in occupied France
parachutes into a country under the Nazi jackboot where
he
encounters a world of subterfuge and resistance. An affair with
a young
French girl compensates for the constant threat of
betrayal, capture, torture
and a ‘bullet in the back of the head’.
After imprisonment and interrogation by
the dreaded Gestapo,
he outwits his captors and flees to England
he fails to reach his target; ‘missing presumed dead’ becomes
his epitaph. Following a series of unexpected events almost
seventy years later,
his descendants discover the truth about
his clandestine exploits, his bizarre fate
and the chaotic legacy
for the family.
Publishing date: December 2012
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