Freefall

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'A born storyteller' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH . Dreadfully injured in the Arnhem landings, paratrooper Theo Trickey was never expected to survive. Medical Officer Captain Daniel Garland pulled Trickey's comatose body from a pile of corpses, keeping him alive as they were shipped to a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. As Garland discovers, Trickey has had a remarkable war. Boy soldier, commando, paratrooper, intelligence officer - fighting from northern France to the African desert. But that's not all. What was Trickey's connection with Germany's greatest general, the recently deceased Erwin Rommel? Why have the Desert Fox's loyalest officers tracked him down and just what is it that they want Garland to do? Freefall is the second part of Radcliffe's Airborne trilogy which tells the extraordinary story of a young soldier, a new regiment and how, together, they changed the course of a war. 'A must-read: deft, vivid, painfully well-observed' Graham Hurley, author of Finisterre.

Robert Radcliffe is the bestselling author of seven novels, including The Lazarus Child, Under an English Heaven and Dambuster. He lives in Suffolk.

Radcliffe writes with knowledge and skill... [A] fascinating and convincing novel' * The Times * Fantastic -- Kate Atkinson Enthralling * Daily Mail * A born storyteller * Sunday Telegraph * The mixture of fiction and fact provides a good look at real events... Well written and readable' * Soldier Magazine * A rattlingly good yarn, the literary version of a Hollywood blockbuster * New Statesman *