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Flashpoint
- Narrator
- Sean Barrett
- Publisher
- Zaffre
- Publish Date
- 27 August 2026
- Run Time
- 11 hours 39 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
1943, America
SOE's Saffron Courtney is back in New York, but even as she recovers from her mission to Washington, events on the other side of the Atlantic are making her return to England inevitable. The War Office need someone to extract an asset - a Jewish scientist, Caleb Ezra, a man vital to the war effort - from his hideaway on the besieged island of Leros. But first there is a debt to settle, and the mob do not wait - even for a decorated war hero . . .
1946, Kenya
Back in her beloved homeland, and reunited with her lover-now-husband Gerhard von Meerbach, Saffron thinks that she might finally have found the peace that she craves. The war is over. But when she's paid a visit by an English operative who blackmails her with accusations of Gerhard's involvement in Nazi atrocities, Saffron has no choice but to return to the US at his bidding. With not only her life, but her family at stake, Saffron must track down Ezra once more - before it's too late . . .
RETURN TO WILBUR SMITH'S LEGENDARY COURTNEY SERIES WITH A POWERFUL NEW WWII THRILLER - ESPIONAGE, CONSPIRACY and a RACE-AGAINST-TIME MISSION FOR THE TRUTH IN THE FOLLOW ON FROM WORLDWIDE BESTSELLERS COURTNEY'S WAR, LEGACY OF WAR AND CROSSFIRE.
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Details
- Author
- Wilbur Smith and David Churchill
- Narrator
- Sean Barrett
- Duration
- 11 hours 39 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 August 2026
- ISBN
- 9781806176328
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Zaffre
- Genre
- Family saga / generational saga fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, Second World War fiction, Historical adventure fiction
Synopsis
AN IMPOSSIBLE MISSION. A QUEST FOR THE TRUTH. ONLY SHE HAS WHAT IT TAKES . . .1943, AmericaSOE's Saffron Courtney is back in New York, but even as she recovers from her mission to Washington, events on the other side of the Atlantic are making her return to England inevitable. The War Office need someone to extract an asset - a Jewish scientist, Caleb Ezra, a man vital to the war effort - from his hideaway on the besieged island of Leros. But first there is a debt to settle, and the mob do not wait - even for a decorated war hero . . . 1946, KenyaBack in her beloved homeland, and reunited with her lover-now-husband Gerhard von Meerbach, Saffron thinks that she might finally have found the peace that she craves. The war is over. But when she's paid a visit by an English operative who blackmails her with accusations of Gerhard's involvement in Nazi atrocities, Saffron has no choice but to return to the US at his bidding. With not only her life, but her family at stake, Saffron must track down Ezra once more - before it's too late . . .RETURN TO WILBUR SMITH'S LEGENDARY COURTNEY SERIES WITH A POWERFUL NEW WWII THRILLER - ESPIONAGE, CONSPIRACY and a RACE-AGAINST-TIME MISSION FOR THE TRUTH IN THE FOLLOW ON FROM WORLDWIDE BESTSELLERS COURTNEY'S WAR, LEGACY OF WAR AND CROSSFIRE.
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