Last Snow Of Winter

Your wife's been captured - and I'm afraid tortured. The senior officer across the desk looked up: She was heard to scream. We don't know for how long. The officer stood up: I'm very sorry he said and shook Harry's hand... Harry Cardwell's wife Annie is in the hands of the OVRA Italian secret police; his youngest son waits alone and vulnerable in Basel his oldest son is trying to track down Harold Macmillan somewhere in North Africa: one family like so many in war scattered across the world and variously in peril... Between them they live the invasion of Sicily and Italy: with the 8th and 5th Armies and the foot-soldiers' slog; with the PoWs and the partisan war; with the desperate heroism everywhere military and civilian; with the tragic consequences of mistake or betrayal. And all of them all the time inside that endless roulette-wheel of injury death or survival most especially at the very end when victory and peace seem within grasp. Part 5 of 6 in the Harry and Annie series