Jack Higgins Night of the Fox

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The New York Timesbestselling author's ';most tingling thriller since The Eagle Has Landed': An agent poses as a Nazi for a mission on the verge of D-Day (Publishers Weekly). In May of 1944, shipwrecked American Colonel Hugh Kelso washes up on the shore of Nazi-occupied Jerseywith a valuable secret. As one of the few men with knowledge of the impending invasion of Normandy, Kelso must be rescued at all costs. Enter Harry Martineau, a covert British operative charged with the dangerous mission of impersonating a Nazi officer to infiltrate Jersey and retrieveor silenceColonel Kelso. It is not only their lives that hang in the balance ... A riveting World War II thriller, Night of the Fox is ';an exceptional tale' from the multimillion-selling author of the Liam Devlin and Sean Dillon series, a master of edge-of-your-seat espionage adventure (Library Journal). It was adapted into a TV film starring George Peppard, John Mills, and Michael York.