The Last Secret

On the day the Pentagon releases the UAP videos, a dying test pilot whispers: “We stole it.”

April 27, 2020. In a hospice room, Robert Bourque finally tells the story he wasn’t allowed to tell. His confession drags us back to February 1945—London basements, forged papers, and a suicidal order from OSS and SIS: infiltrate Der Riese near Breslau, steal the Nazis’ impossible craft called Die Glocke, and get it out before the Soviets close the noose and the SS blows the site.

The Bell doesn’t fly like an airplane. It moves like thought. Bourque gets ninety seconds of combat power, a handful of Polish partisans, a frozen-lake rendezvous, and a C-93 waiting in the dark. If he can’t deliver it, he must destroy it first.

What follows is a razor-clean heist through blackout cities and winter forests—checkpoints, sabotage, last-ditch faith, and a machine that shouldn’t exist. The war may end either way. History won’t.

The Last Secret is a lean World War II thriller about loyalty, tradecraft, and the uncredited men who bend the future without leaving their names behind. Perfect for readers of Ben Macintyre and Frederick Forsyth, fans of covert ops, and anyone who likes their history with rocket fuel.

Very Poor story and narrative

This was a very poorly written story and read by what sounded like an AI clone. Most sentences were around 6 words in length. Many of the words were mispronounced or misinterpreted and army time was not understood or properly conveyed. I have listened to nearly 400 audiobooks on audible and this would easily be the worse one by far.

A Long Slog with Little Reward

Most of this story takes place in Poland as Germany retreats from Soviet forces. The book does a good job of reflecting the bleak, joyless existence of those trying to carry on in the midst of the war-torn country. While the book is supposed to be about Die Glocke and could have taken on many imaginative twists and turns, Die Glocke was really just a prop in the numbing story of traversing war-torn Poland. Unfortunately, the virtual voice narrating the story doesn't seem to be able to distinguish the pronunciation difference between "Polish" as in Polish people and "Polish" as in shoe polish. Perhaps the virtual voice did this on purpose to add some humor to an otherwise humorless story.