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Fall 1944. Germany is losing, and the Americans are starting to hope they'll be home for Christmas. Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny, "Hitler's Commando," famed for his daring rescue of the imprisoned Mussolini, has just received orders for Operation Greif: He is to assemble a new brigade of 2,000 men, all of whom speak English, and send them behind Allied lines disguised as GIs, where they will wreak havoc in advance of a savage new offensive.
"Using WWII's Battle of the Bulge as background, Frost ... spins real-life and fictional characters into thriller gold." - PW.
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Mark Frost's other books include The List of Seven and The Six Messiahs, and the nonfiction The Grand Slam and The Greatest Game Ever Played.
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