By Jack Higgins
A bartender and nightclub singer are thrown into the midst of a treacherous Nazi plot in war-torn Lisbon
As the Nazi struggle computer prepares to invade England, Hitler plots to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor whereas they shuttle in Portugal, and set up them as puppet monarchs below the thumb of his fascist regime.
But while an American bartender and a tender Jewish nightclub singer capture wind of the scheme, they got down to derail the Nazi conspiracy. As Hitler’s henchmen shut in, their exciting rescue mission—and the incredible aid it receives—will have the facility to show the tide of the Nazi growth towards eu domination.
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Except in Fencing, in which I had won the Public School Championship, I had achieved no distinction. All my contemporaries and even younger boys' seemed in every way better adapted to the conditions of our little world. They were far better both at the games and at the lessons. not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race. I had been surprised on taking leave of Dr. Welldon to hear him I could see no founda predict, with a confidence for which It is tion, that I should be able to make my way all right.
After I had been hunted for twenty minutes and was rather short of breath, I decided to cross the bridge. Arrived at its centre consternation that the pursuers had divided I saw to my One stood at each end of the bridge 5 capture seemed certain. But in a flash there came across me a great project. The chine which the bridge spanned was full of their forces. Their slender tops reached to the level of the footway. 'Would it not/ I asked myself, 'be possible to young fir trees. ' I looked at it. I computed it, I medi tated.