James Holland

The Odin Mission

(Jack Tanner: Book 1): an absorbing, tense, high-octane historical action novel set in Norway during WW2. Guaranteed to get your pulse racing!

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Produktbeschreibung

The first novel in the highly commercial new series featuring Sergeant Jack Tanner.

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With the odds stacked against them and the temperature dropping fast, they are not only fighting for their lives, but also to protect a mysterious Norwegian professor in whose hands lies the outcome of the war. To survive, Tanner must outfox and outfight the pursuing Nazis who are desperate for the secrets the Norwegian holds.

Produktdetails

• Jack Tanner
• Verlag: Corgi / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 613146
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9780552157360
• ISBN-10: 0552157368
• Artikelnr.: 26027754

Autorenporträt

James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently Brothers In Arms and Normandy '44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts. He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels. With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940 and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940.

Rezensionen

Plenty of action... sharp dialogue and swift characterisation. The whole is intelligently structured so that this is absorbing and thoughtful as well as tense and exciting Daily Telegraph