Cold Harbour by Jack Higgins (1990)

Cold Harbour
by Jack Higgins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Copyright: 1990

On a dark night in May 1944, a month before D day, an American OSS agent floats helplessly in the sea off the coast of Brittany. When a German E-boat appears out of the fog, bearing directly down on him. CRAIG OSBOURNE knows his war, possibly his life, is over -- until he looks up to find himself face-to-face with a man he last saw at Harvard in 1939 . . .

So begins this brilliant new thriller, as the Master of the Game returns to his best-known territory, Europe in World War II -- territory Jack Higgins made his own with The Eagle Has Landed.

Craig Osbourne's rescue plunges him into the secret world of Cold Harbour -- a world of cross and double-cross, in which the charades of deception are as complex as they are deadly. Under the iron hand of the sinister Brigadier Dougal Munro, the tiny fishing village on the Cornish coast has been transformed into an elaborate scheme on which the fate of D day and the Allied victory depend.

Where and when will they land? It is the answer to that question which obsesses Hitler, Rommel, Himmler, and the entire German High Command, an answer that Cold Harbour must hide.

Drawn into this deadly game -- and at the same time repelled by Munro's cold and brutal willingness to sacrifice everything and everyone to his goal -- Osbourne soon finds himself the key player in a plot that involves the fate of countless people, from French Resistance fighters and Allied espionage agents to the troops who will shortly be embarking to invade Europe.

With the surefire instincts of a born storyteller, Jack Higgins takes us from the secret world of Cold Harbour to the elegant French Chateau in which the game of deception is finally played out, as Osbourne and the young woman who has been selected for the most crucial espionage role of the war risk everything to mislead the Germans.

Against Osbourne is pitted a wily, courageous, and determined enemy: MAX PRIEM, the German SS colonel, whose mission it is to destroy Cold Harbour, at any cost -- even his life.

On Osbourne's side is a group of brilliantly eccentric secret warriors,some of whom may be playing a double-game:

* JOE EDGE, ace RAF pilot, who takes an almost perverse pleasure in downing Luftwaffe planes -- and in wearing Luftwaffe uniforms on his mysterious missions.

* MARTIN HARE, an American naval officer haunted by the price of his own survival in the Pacific -- whose command is a German vessel!

* GENEVIEVE TREVAUNCE, the beautiful English nurse, coerced into living a lie -- and risking her life, as well as what remains of her family, to keep Cold Harbour's secret.

Danger and deceit are the only rules of the game as Genevieve and Osbourne set out to fulfill their mission -- and discover that their commander, BRIGADIER MUNRO, may be as deadly an opponent as the Germans.

Cold Harbour is a riveting story of suspense, adventure, and war -- Jack Higgins's most ambitious novel to date.

Condition: Used. Hardcover. Dust cover is rubbed and shows light discoloration. Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the inside endpaper. Pages are tanning from age.

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