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The electrifying WWII bestseller from the master of the game.

On the 30th April 1945, Russian radar reported a light aircraft leaving the vicinity of the Tiergarten in Berlin. But who was on board, and where was the plane going?

Berlin was in ruins as the Russians moved relentlessly towards the concrete bunker where the Nazi adminstration had been destroyed. But one man, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler’s secretary and eminence grise had a daring plan to escape.

Far away to the south–west , at Schloss Arlberg above the River Inn, five prisoners of war were contemplating their fate. Would they be murdered by their captors or liberated by the Russians?

Unbeknown to them Bormann has his own plans. They are about to become part of a mystery that has fascinated the world for over sixty years. What exactly did happen to Bormann and his prisoners?

©2019 Jack Higgins (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Crime Thrillers Espionage Historical Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense War Fiction

Critic reviews

Another first rate page-turner from Jack Higgins, a writer at the peak of his power’
Daily Express

‘Open a Jack Higgins novel and you’ll encounter a master craftsman at the peak of his powers … first-rate tales of intrigue, suspense and full-on action.’
Sunday Express

‘Higgins is a master of his craft.’
Daily Telegraph

‘A thriller writer in a class of his own.’
Financial Times

‘The master craftsman of good, clean adventure.’
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It’s a ripping yarn - albeit with some unlikely plot devices. The narration is a travesty though. Hats off to the sheer number of accents attempted but they do not help as so many are basically the same cliched German voices.
The killer though is the basic errors -

Leutnant - is pronounced with a « oy » sound not a « oo »

And the « e » at the end of Luftwaffe is not silent.

Just two examples.

Several other basic mistakes even on English words.

Good story butchered by narrator

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as a jack Higgins fan, this was disappointing as I just couldn't stay the course with this narrator. he ruined the story.

great story, poor narrator

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