Kindred Blood

"One day sooner or later this weapon will be in our hands and . . . it will be more terrible than anything that has gone before.'' In 1941, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess tells MI6 how terrifyingly advanced Nazi Germany's nuclear weapons programme already is. In the very last days of the war, with the Fatherland being choked to death in a closing fist of steel, Hitler launches the most audacious scheme of the entire war: Operation Magi - a radiation attack on America's West Coast. Three U-boats are ordered to the Far East, each loaded with a deadly cargo of enriched uranium, which the Americans will stop at nothing to capture. The first U-boat is sunk, the second captured, leaving the third somewhere in the vast Atlantic Ocean, still going, ploughing, unnoticed, westwards through the rolling green, still capable of winning the war for Germany. But for one man aboard this final submarine, Operation Magi means more than just winning the war. For renegade SS Major Paul Stadler, under secret orders of his own, it could also be his first - and last - chance to finally meet the love of his life. His young Jewish-American son. 'This is real 'Robert Ludlum meets Andy McNab' territory, with a pulsing plotline that is both action-packed and intellectually provocative, as well as surprisingly sensitive in the way it deals with the world of elite soldiering' - Penpress Reader's report for Exit Wound - sequel to Kindred Blood.