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Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away...
Western Front, December 1941. For months the Allies have been slogging away, trying to puncture Hitler's dreaded Westwall into the Reich. But now, with casualties running into hundreds of thousands, Supreme Commander US General Eisenhower is no further forward than he was the previous September.
With Washington breathing down his neck for a breakthrough, Ike resorts to a perilous plan. He weakens his own front at its most vital point, luring the Germans from their fortifications in the Ardennes with an offer they cannot refuse. Then his most fearless general, 'Old Blood an' Guts' Patton, Commander of the 3rd US Army, will slam into the Germans' left flank. With the enemy decimated the Allies can finally break into the Reich for victory.
But there are dark forces at work on both sides to thwart the Westwall offensive - and General Patton is an obvious target for swift elimination...
Leo Kessler
is a pseudonym for Charles Whiting, who also writes as Duncan Harding and John Kerrigan.
Born in York in 1926, Charles Whiting volunteered for the Army in 1943, where he saw active service in Belgium, Holland and Germany with the 52nd Reconnaissance Regiment. After leaving university in 1953 he went to live abroad and worked as an editor, businessman, The Times Educational Supplement correspondent and later as an assistant professor and lecturer at several universities around the world. He became a full-time writer in 1973, and returned to write in England in 1988.
Charles Whiting has now had over 200 books published, encompassing military history, espionage, biography and action fiction. Holder of the Sir George Dowty Prize for Literature, he is one of the most popular borrowed authors in UK lending libraries. Previous bestselling Leo Kessler titles include the Wotan series, Revenge, Operation Fury, Death from Arctic Skies, Death's Eagles and most recently The Churchill Papers.
Genre: Thriller
Western Front, December 1941. For months the Allies have been slogging away, trying to puncture Hitler's dreaded Westwall into the Reich. But now, with casualties running into hundreds of thousands, Supreme Commander US General Eisenhower is no further forward than he was the previous September.
With Washington breathing down his neck for a breakthrough, Ike resorts to a perilous plan. He weakens his own front at its most vital point, luring the Germans from their fortifications in the Ardennes with an offer they cannot refuse. Then his most fearless general, 'Old Blood an' Guts' Patton, Commander of the 3rd US Army, will slam into the Germans' left flank. With the enemy decimated the Allies can finally break into the Reich for victory.
But there are dark forces at work on both sides to thwart the Westwall offensive - and General Patton is an obvious target for swift elimination...
Leo Kessler
is a pseudonym for Charles Whiting, who also writes as Duncan Harding and John Kerrigan.
Born in York in 1926, Charles Whiting volunteered for the Army in 1943, where he saw active service in Belgium, Holland and Germany with the 52nd Reconnaissance Regiment. After leaving university in 1953 he went to live abroad and worked as an editor, businessman, The Times Educational Supplement correspondent and later as an assistant professor and lecturer at several universities around the world. He became a full-time writer in 1973, and returned to write in England in 1988.
Charles Whiting has now had over 200 books published, encompassing military history, espionage, biography and action fiction. Holder of the Sir George Dowty Prize for Literature, he is one of the most popular borrowed authors in UK lending libraries. Previous bestselling Leo Kessler titles include the Wotan series, Revenge, Operation Fury, Death from Arctic Skies, Death's Eagles and most recently The Churchill Papers.
Genre: Thriller
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