The Odin Mission

<p>James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian writer and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently <i>Brothers In Arms</i> and <i>Normandy '44</i> he is also the author of nine works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts.<br><br>He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC Channel 4 National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels. <br><br>With Al Murray he has a successful Second World War podcast <i>We Have Ways of Making You Talk</i> which also has its own festival and is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940 and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940.</p> Plenty of action... sharp dialogue and swift characterisation. The whole is intelligently structured so that this is absorbing and thoughtful as well as tense and exciting Old-fashioned testosterone-fuelled escapism and Tanner is a chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando comics... Destined to be a series that will run and run Sharpe for the Blitz years... <i>The Odin Mission </i>is a meaty all-action yarn A good old-fashioned action hero makes his appearance in this page-turning thriller the first of a planned series of Second World War novels featuring Sergeant Jack Tanner... James Holland a respected military historian has produced a story authentic in every detail <p><b><i>From the pen of <u>bestselling author and historian</u> James Holland comes this action-packed page-turner of a wartime thriller. Jam-packed with sharp dialogue dynamic and authentic scenes and unforgettable characterisation this is perfect for fans of Robert Harris Bernard Cornwell and Ken Follett.</i></b><br><b><br>'Tanner is a chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando comics...Destined to be a series that will run and run.' -- <i>Mail On Sunday</i></b><br><b>Sharpe for the Blitz years...<i>The Odin Mission</i> is a meaty all-action yarn' - <i>Sunday Telegraph</i></b><br><b>'A breezy action packed page turning ripper of a yarn' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'I just couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'A cracking tale' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Top class' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>***********************************************************************************</b><br><b>Norway 1940: </b><b>ONE SMALL FORCE STANDS BEFORE THE NAZI BLITZKRIEG.</b><br><br>The few remaining <b>British</b> troops retreat in the fact of a remorseless <b>German</b> advance. For <b>Sergeant Jack Tanner</b> and his stranded patrol it is a desperate rearguard action.<br><br>With the odds stacked against them and the temperature dropping fast they are not only fighting for their lives but also to protect a mysterious <b>Norwegian professor</b> in whose hands lies the outcome of the war.<br><br>To survive Tanner must outfox and outfight the pursuing <b>Nazis</b> who are desperate for the secrets the Norwegian holds. <b>They will stop at nothing to secure them. . .</b><br><b><br>Jack Tanner's adventures continue in<i> Darkest Hour</i>.</b></p>