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The American Spy

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 It's 1943 and the world is at war. On the European front, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill have already picked a date for Allied soldiers to storm Normandy's beaches and take the battle to Germany. But the Germans may have new weapons to stop the invasion dead in its tracks. British Intelligence learned four years earlier that the Germans were developing rockets to be used for warfare but could not corroborate the information. Then, information from Polish Resistance and Royal Air Force reconnaissance photos revealed similar information. Finally, recorded conversations between captured German generals verified it—Germany was close to developing the V2—a rocket that could carry one thousand kilograms of explosives and be fired a distance of 200 miles. Churchill and Roosevelt agree that if the Germans launch rockets with that amount of firepower into the Allies' amphibious landing, we could not survive.
Britain launched Operation Hydra, where the RAF bombed the V2 production site on the Baltic Sea. They lost forty aircraft in the raid and barely put a dent in the program. In response, the Nazis moved it to an underground mine immune to Allied bombing.
Roosevelt and Brigadier General William J. Donovan, with help from Robert Goddard, America's rocket expert, develop a plan. There may be a German scientist assigned to the project who will cooperate with the Allies. They recruit an American Army officer of German descent to flip the scientist to our side. Lieutenant Mathias Jansen becomes a spy for the Office of Strategic Services and parachutes into Western Poland to stop the production of the rocket at their underground factory. Jansen has a plan that may work but is unaware that a Gestapo agent knows of his mission from intercepted radio communications. He is a patriot but has a hidden motive for risking his life behind enemy lines. He’s in love with a German woman he hasn’t seen since the war began.
THE AMERICAN SPY is the story of a spy and saboteur who is hunted by the Gestapo in Germany. It is firmly grounded in the history of World War Two and will appeal to readers who enjoy history and adventure alike. Genre Fiction Historical Fiction War & Military
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