Echo of the Reich: A Chris Bronson Thriller
By (Author) James Becker
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
15th June 2012
21st June 2012
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823/.92
Paperback
496
Width 127mm, Height 198mm, Spine 31mm
347g
Chris Bronson is back in this edge-of-your-seat thriller involving a secret Nazi WW2 weapon amd a plot against the 2012 London Olympics. AN OLD ENEMY Poland, 1945. A special Evacuation Kommando arrives at the Wencleslas Mine, site of the Nazis' most secret weapon development project. A device known as Die Glocke is removed from the subterranean factory, loaded on to a transport aircraft and spirited out of war-ravaged Europe. No witnesses are left alive. A DESIRE FOR REVENGE London, today. Chris Bronson is working undercover for the Metropolitan Police. What begins as a routine investigation into a group of hooligans vandalising sites in North West London, takes a very sinister turn when Bronson discovers the attacks are being masterminded by a Far Right group. A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF FEAR What if the prototype for a devastating new form of super-weapon survived the end of the war What if sixty years later it has been perfected Now imagine an old enemy who has been hiding in the shadows and is still fighting a war most thought had ended with the fall of Hitler. Chris Bronson has less than ten days to stop the biggest and most destructive terror attack the world has ever seen.
James Becker spent over twenty years in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air arm and served during Falklands War. Throughout his career he has been involved in covert operations in many of the world's hotspots; places like Yemen, Northern Ireland and Russia. He is an accomplished combat pistol shot and has an abiding interest in ancient and medieval history.