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billy boyle a billy boyle world war ii mystery
this book has got it all an instant classic . lee child author of the hard way p a tale as tight as a drum . doesnt get any better than this . mary ann tirone smith author of the poppy rice mysteries p it is a pleasure marching off to war with spirited billy boyle . he is a charmer richly imagined and vividly rendered . and he tells a finely suspenseful yarn . dan fesperman author of the prisoner of guantnamo p rich with atmosphere ... . a treat from start to finish . owen parry author of the abel jones mysteries p whats a twenty two year old irish cop from boston doing at beardsley hall having lunch with haakon king of norway and the rest of the norwegian government in exile billy boyle himself wonders . back home hed just made detective with a little help from family and friends when war was declared . unwilling to fight and perhaps die for england he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant cousin mamie . but the general turns out to be dwight d. eisenhower ; his headquarters are in london which is undergoing the blitz ; and uncle ike has a special assignment for billy he wants billy to be his personal investigator . p operation jupiter the impending invasion of norway is being planned . billy is to catch a spy amongst the norwegians . he doubts his own abilities and a theft and two murders test his investigative powers . but to his own surprise billy proves to be a better detective than anyone suspected .
paperback wheeler publishing 2009 isbn13 9781597228916 isbn10 1597228915
abridged n isbn 13 9781597228916 number in series 1 number of pages 541 publisher wheeler pub inc release date 62135769600000 series title wheeler large print book series