Billy Boyle #11
Soho Crime
September 2016
On Sale: September 13, 2016
336 pages ISBN: 1616956429 EAN: 9781616956424 Kindle: B01A4ANSCC Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Billy Boyle, US Army detective and ex-Boston cop, faces his toughest investigation yet: infiltrating enemy lines in France as the Allies invade Normandy.
Itβs late May 1944. Captain Billy Boyle is court-martialed on spurious charges of black market dealings. Stripped of his officerβs rank, reduced to private, and sentenced to three monthsβ hard labor, Billy is given an opportunity: he can avoid his punishment if he goes behind enemy lines to rescue a high-value Allied soldier.
A secret chamber and tunnels, once used by escaping Huguenots in the 17th century, has since been taken over by the Allies. But this βsafe houseβ on the outskirts of Chaumont turns out to be anything butβtwo downed airmen, one Canadian and the other American, have been murdered.
Billy is flown in as part of a three-man team on June 5, 1944, the night before the Normandy invasion, and must solve the mystery of who is behind the murders before then leading a group escape back to England, with both the Germans and a killer hot on their heels.