ÒYour wifeÕs been captured Ð and, IÕm afraid, tortured.Ó The senior officer across the desk looked up: ÒShe was heard to scream. We donÕt know for how long.Ó The officer stood up: ÒIÕm very sorry,Ó he said and shook HarryÕs hand...
Harry CardwellÕs wife Annie is in the hands of the OVRA, Italian secret police; his youngest son waits alone and vulnerable in Basel, his oldest son is trying to track down Harold Macmillan somewhere in North Africa: one family, like so many in war, scattered across the world and variously in peril...
Between them they live the invasion of Sicily and Italy: with the 8th and 5th Armies and the foot-soldiersÕ slog; with the PoWs and the partisan war; with the desperate heroism everywhere, military and civilian; with the tragic consequences of mistake or betrayal. And all of them all the time inside that endless roulette-wheel of injury, death or survival, most especially at the very end when victory and peace seem within grasp.
Part 5 of 6 in the Harry and Annie series