Orders for New York

By Leslie Thomas

Book Overview

They came on a distant, secret night, armed and ready to kill. Their ghosts are still with us today. In June 1942 a party of German saboteurs landed by submarine in the United States of America. They... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140118144
• ISBN13: 9780140118148
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.1" x 0.9" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

STRANGE BUT TRUE...based on 2nd World War true stories

From back cover of book: "On a foggy June evening in 1942 a party of Nazi saboteurs landed by submarine in the United States of America.Within weeks they had been betrayed by their own leader and executed in the electric chair.When war correspondent Michael Findlater retired to Massachusetts to study whales, his ex-wife's powerful husband found a more urgent use for his investigative skills.But as Michael turned up more about the Nazi double betrayer,he realized that someone else still remembered the events of 1942.AND THAT SOMEONE WANTED HIM DEAD."