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The Devil's Gambit

The Devils Gambit by Granville Allen Mawer

A FREE eBOOK

Book 1 of Allen's, as yet, unpublished work
is here for you to read and enjoy.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In the last days of World War Two a signal from a long lost gypsy agent in Germany prompts the British Secret Service to parachute an officer in to re-establish contact. Jonathon Smith finds himself in a web of intrigue as the Third Reich crumbles, taking old loyalties with it. Everyone is looking for a way out. Everyone, that is except Adolf Hitler, and who can move if he will not?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Granville Allen Mawer, historian, is the author of several books including his book Ahab's Trade, short listed for the Queensland Premier's History Prize 2000 and the NSW Premier's History Prize 2001. He is a contributor to the Australian Dictionary of Biography and sometime reviewer of maritime books for The Times Literary Supplement. His most recently published work is Diary of a Spitfire Pilot, over the English Channel and Over Darwin (Rosenberg Publishing 2011).

 

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Copyright for the Devil's Gambit © Granville Allen Mawer 2003.

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