Book one of the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare series
By CONOR BENDER
JUBILEE
Historical Fiction Novel
Dieppe. Summer, 1942. Lord Louis Mountbatten, Commander of the Combined Operations Office, has his eye on Northern France and an audacious plan for an Allied raid on this quiet fishing port in Normandy. But the head of Special Operations, Charles Hambro, has his doubts. Mountbatten’s plans seem politically motivated and dangerously lacking in detail. Bowing to Mountbatten’s seniority – and against his better judgement – Hambro sends his best agent, Arthur Cutter, undercover to France. Smuggled into the outskirts of Dieppe, Cutter links up with a young, hostile, and female French resistance fighter, Talia Crevier. As the Allied Forces attempt to penetrate the Nazi Atlantic Wall, Cutter and Crevier must find a way to trust each other – and infiltrate the Nazi forces within the town in a desperate attempt to give the raid a fighting chance. But as circumstance and Nazi cunning encircle them, the odds of success for Mountbatten’s Operation Jubilee grow smaller and smaller….
UPCOMING WORKS
The Vichy Treasury
In the Sahel of French West Africa, a treasure worth millions has been hidden from the Nazis by the Vichy French. With a failed Allied invasion of Dakar, Senegal, a race has begun between the British SOE and the German Abwehr. The prize: half-a-billion worth of gold from the combined treasuries of France, Belgium, and Poland.
Privateers
For Henry Riley and the crew of the Chimera, privateering is just a means to an end. For Henry, it’s a way to return home. Banished from Charlestowne, South Carolina by the British Governor, Henry’s only hope to return to his family and the woman he loves is by pressing his ship into the service of the Continental Navy in exchange for a full pardon upon the defeat of the British. But with victory all but certain, can he survive the perils of the high seas as he and the ragtag Continental Navy fight the Legendary British Navy?
JUBILEE is a top-flight World War II thriller that pulses with energy and intrigue. Conor Bender takes us into Occupied France and delivers a page-turning story of spies, lovers, and enemies, and a high-stakes mission that could go terribly, terribly wrong. A spellbinding and deeply satisfying thriller.
– Michele rubin, cornerstones editor
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