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Crossfire
by Wilbur Smith
Book 5 in the Assegai Sequence series.
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The Atlantic and Washington, 1943. After the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, Allied leaders prepare discussions that will shape the next phase of the war. SOE agent Saffron Courtney travels aboard the Queen Mary with orders to identify a mole inside the British Embassy. The voyage and Washington investigation unfold within the Grand Alliance, when Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union cooperate militarily while already concealing competing post-war aims.
German agents and unresolved trauma from her work in the Low Countries follow her into the United States. Saffron must expose the leak before secret Anglo-American strategy reaches Berlin, while distinguishing political rivalry from deliberate betrayal. Saffron’s task is therefore not simply to identify an enemy agent but to protect negotiations whose disclosure could alter operations in Europe and the balance between the Allies.
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