A Slender Thread

Name: A Slender Thread
Rating: 4.4 (1103 reviews)

by John Rhodes Book 1 in the Breaking Point series.

First published 2022

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In 1942, the struggle for the Mediterranean places Malta and the British position in Egypt under extreme pressure. Axis aircraft and submarines threaten the island’s supply line while Erwin Rommel’s army advances across North Africa. RAF pilot Johnnie Shaux returns to a campaign defined by exhausted crews, dwindling fuel and the need to keep Malta’s airfields operating. Eleanor Rand studies the wider strategic contest in which the island’s survival is inseparable from the desert war.

Their work pulls them into different parts of the same crisis as the fighting approaches its turning point. Johnnie must survive the immediate violence of aerial combat, while Eleanor weighs operations whose consequences are measured in ships, aircraft and lives. The novel links the siege, the contest over Mediterranean supply routes and the fighting around El Alamein with the strain that war places on their developing relationship.