Cold Comfort (Inspector Ian Rutledge, Book 15.5) by Charles Todd

By Charles Todd

It's 1915, and the good warfare is just six months outdated. Lieutenant Ian Rutledge has left in the back of his profession at Scotland backyard and is now serving in France. He's briefly with the sappers--men digging underground tunnels towards the German traces to trigger explosions lower than the enemy trenches. In his quarter, Rutledge and his males set their fees and get out of the tunnel as quick as attainable. however the fees don't burst off. It's insanity to return down and discover why, yet Rutledge and personal Williams volunteer. They slightly make it again ahead of the tunnel blows up. Rutledge suspects that Welsh miners minimize the fuse too lengthy, even supposing they deny it.

Then Williams confides to Rutledge that those similar males, part brothers Taffy Jones and Aaron Lloyd, have attempted prior to this to kill him. And they're made up our minds sufficient to probability different men's lives besides. Rutledge discovers in the middle of a raging conflict that homicide has made its option to France, and he needs to give you the chance to end up it.

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Soon afterward came an episode in Bastogne, showing again what kind of battle this was going to be. They carted off not merely the staff and the supplies, but all the wounded men. IV Monuments resumed work on interrogation; it was the way they could be most useful, setting free the military men for more urgent duties. Lanny’s interest was the keener because his own life was at stake. Many whom he didn’t know would know him, for he had been a conspicuous figure wherever he went in Naziland, the American whom the Führer trusted.

They talked fast, and it was evident that they knew their business down to the last detail; they had spent two years learning it and half a year acting what they had learned. With quiet competence they laid out the procedure. Another commando would be a second or two behind, prepared to help. All that presupposed darkness, of which there was an unlimited quantity outside. ” asked Lanny. ” exclaimed the lieutenant, pleased but uncertain. “Most of the officers will be in the farmhouse, eating supper and resting.

He had destroyed all his papers and could give a false name and might get by with it. But he had traveled all over Germany, ever since boyhood, and had known literally thousands of Germans, especially of the officer class and among the Nazis of the ruling group. Wasn’t it certain that they would apply all the fancy kinds of scientific torture they had devised to make him reveal the names of his accomplices? So why not die quickly and take a few highly trained enemy troops along with him? If only he had had one of those tiny cyanide capsules with which the OSS provided its agents when going into enemy territory!

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