Commando

by Christopher Nicole Book 1 in the Commando series.

First published 1999

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Second Lieutenant Harry Curtis is wounded. Curtis becomes desperate to hit back against the Nazis. He is invited to join Churchill’s elite regiment, the Leopards. They will later be given a name that becomes legendary. They are ordered to cause maximum damage in minimum time, surprising the Germans and increasing morale for the Allies. Harry becomes involved in a raid on the Lofoten Islands where he captures the mysterious Veronica Sturmer, daughter of Germany’s leading code expert.

A plan develops to capture her father, currently in Calais, and to bring him to England. But danger, betrayal and some of the most terrifying, gruelling events of the war lie ahead for the Commandos before their objective can be realised. The first volume follows the improvised formation of British raiding forces, using the Lofoten operation, code intelligence and a mission to seize a German expert to show how commandos became a new instrument of war.