Road to Oblivion: THE GREAT WAR OF OSBIE McDONALD

By Neville Johnston

ROAD TO OBLIVION is a Historical Thriller set in Western Europe on the eve of the bloody Battle of the Somme in World War One. The plot is interwoven with espionage, murder, romance, deception, manipulation, injustice, and the horrors of war.

Osbie McDonald, a Jamaican volunteer in the British Military, is drafted into the Intelligence Corps and is sent on a special mission to deliver a TOP SECRET communication to the French Mar?chal in Chantilly. While on the mission, he has an affair with a beautiful French nurse Marie, who entertains him in Chantilly and Paris, no expense spared. He suspects Marie of spying for the Germans and of murdering a journalist in a Paris art gallery. Kidnapped by German operatives, he is taken to Zurich and Berlin, where he is repeatedly interrogated. With the assistance of a pretty underground operative Gerda and a French undercover inspector Bourque, who has followed him all the way into Berlin, he undertakes a daring escape, leaving a trail of dead bodies behind in his wake, as he struggles for survival. At a trial of Marie for treason and murder, shocking revelations are made. Anticipation grips the reader's mind in the search for the answers to the question: What will be the ultimate fate of the hapless Osbie McDonald? What is to become of his beautiful lover Marie?

Neville Johnston, a native of Jamaica, has resided in Canada since 1959. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) from the University of Toronto and a Doctor Juris degree (J.D.) from Osgoode Hall Law School (York University). His first novel BURDEN OF BONDAGE was released in January, 2021 and is available on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca as an E-book or paperback.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09DMR5HSC
• ISBN13: 9798462877575
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"