| Title | : | Backlash (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Morris West |
| Release | : | 2020-01-06 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Mysteries & Thrillers |
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| 1 | Backlash (Unabridged) | Morris West |
| From one of the 20th century's most acclaimed and popular authors. The jeep skidded perilously on the icy surface and Sergeant Willis stopped to put on the chains. While he fitted them, Major Mark Hanlon stepped out onto the road and looked up through his field-glasses at the mountains. Then he saw the skier, a tiny black puppet, motionless. A moment later he began to move, gathering speed, in a flurry of snow – a wild, suicidal plunge down the dazzling hillside. Hanlon watched him; breathless, waiting for the fall. But he came onward faster and faster, until they could see the grey of his uniform and the green flashes of the Alpenjäger regiment and the gleam of his polished pistol-belt. An Austrian soldier, armed and in battledress. Yet the war had been over for months now ... |
