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1945: A German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard; the crew have lost their way and eventually crash on the Vatnajökull glacier, the largest in Europe. Puzzlingly, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. He soon disappears into the white vastness.
1999, mid-winter, and the US Army is secretively trying to remove an aeroplane from the Vatnajökull glacier. By coincidence two young Icelanders become involved—but will pay with their lives. Before they are captured, one of the two contacts his sister, Kristin, who will not rest until she discovers the truth of her brother's fate. Her pursuit puts her in great danger, leading her, finally, to a remote island off Argentina in search of the key to the riddle about Operation Napoleon.
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Release date
October 19, 2010 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780307359407
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780307359407
- File size: 2598 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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August 1, 2011
Near the outset of this kinetic thriller from Indridason (Jar City), KristÃn, a lawyer with the Iceland Foreign Ministry in ReykjavÃk, receives a phone call from her younger brother, ElÃas, who tells her he's part of a team on its way to the remote Vatnajökull glacier. Almost immediately, KristÃn finds herself being pursued by assassins tied to a covert American military operation to retrieve the wreckage of a German plane that crashed on the glacier in the closing days of WWII with, oddly, German and U.S. servicemen aboard. Dismissing official disinformation about the mission's purpose, KristÃn flings herself into the thick of a black ops caper to uncover a secret so unsavory that the American military would kill to keep it quiet. Indridason takes an invigoratingly fresh approach to one of the best known conspiracy theories about Nazi and American relations. The cliché-riddled translation won't stop readers from racing to learn the final secret.
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