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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story, but not sure I liked the outcome
- By Gary L. Richardson on 10-19-19
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The Devouring
- A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery
- By: James R. Benn
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- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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A murder in wartime Switzerland reveals Swiss complicity with the Nazis and profiteering during World War II. Billy and Kaz are sent to neutral Switzerland to investigate the murder of a Swiss banking official with ties to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Swiss banks are openly laundering gold "harvested" from concentration camps, and those that are profiting will do everything they can to protect their wealth and hide their dark secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great job by James Benn once again !
- By Ronald on 09-26-17
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Blue Madonna
- By: James R. Benn
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- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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It's late May 1944. Captain Billy Boyle is court-martialed on spurious charges of black-market dealings. Stripped of his officer's rank, reduced to private, and sentenced to three months' hard labor, Boyle is given an opportunity: He can avoid his punishment if he goes behind enemy lines to rescue a high-value Allied soldier.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So good.
- By David on 09-21-16
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The White Ghost
- A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery
- By: James R. Benn
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4 out of 5 stars 52
It's 1943: Amid the bitter, violent Solomon Islands campaign, Billy is assigned the murder investigation of a native coastwatcher whom future president Jack Kennedy discovered on a nearby island with his head bashed in. As the body count climbs, Billy must figure out whether Jack is a cold-blooded killer, even as war rages around him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Great Billy Boyle Mystery
- By Ronald on 11-19-15
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The Rest Is Silence
- A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery, Book 9
- By: James R. Benn
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- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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When an unidentified corpse washes ashore at Slapton Sandson England's southern coast, US army captain Billy Boyle and his partner, Lieutenant Piotr "Kaz" Kazimierz, are assigned to investigate. The Devonshirebeach is the home to Operation Tiger, the top-secret rehearsal for theapproaching D-day invasion of Normandy, and the area is restricted; no one seems to know where the corpse could have come from.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good installment in the series
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A Blind Goddess
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- By: James R. Benn
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- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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March, 1944: US Army Lieutenant Billy Boyle, back in England after a dangerous mission in Italy, is due for a little R&R, and also a promotion. But the now-Captain Boyle doesn't get to kick back and enjoy his leisure time because two upsetting cases fall into his lap at once.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Billy Boyle Army Detective
- By Queen of Everything on 05-09-15
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When Hell Struck Twelve
- By: James R. Benn
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
August, 1944: US Army detective Billy Boyle is assigned to track down a French traitor, code-named Atlantik, who is delivering classified Allied plans to German leaders in occupied Paris. The Resistance is also hot on his trail and out for blood, after Atlantik’s previous betrayals led to the death of many of their members. But the plans Atlantik carries were leaked on purpose, a ruse devised to obscure the Allied army’s real intentions to bypass Paris in a race to the German border.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story, but not sure I liked the outcome
- By Gary L. Richardson on 10-19-19
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The Devouring
- A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery
- By: James R. Benn
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
A murder in wartime Switzerland reveals Swiss complicity with the Nazis and profiteering during World War II. Billy and Kaz are sent to neutral Switzerland to investigate the murder of a Swiss banking official with ties to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Swiss banks are openly laundering gold "harvested" from concentration camps, and those that are profiting will do everything they can to protect their wealth and hide their dark secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great job by James Benn once again !
- By Ronald on 09-26-17
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Blue Madonna
- By: James R. Benn
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
It's late May 1944. Captain Billy Boyle is court-martialed on spurious charges of black-market dealings. Stripped of his officer's rank, reduced to private, and sentenced to three months' hard labor, Boyle is given an opportunity: He can avoid his punishment if he goes behind enemy lines to rescue a high-value Allied soldier.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So good.
- By David on 09-21-16
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The White Ghost
- A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery
- By: James R. Benn
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4 out of 5 stars 52
It's 1943: Amid the bitter, violent Solomon Islands campaign, Billy is assigned the murder investigation of a native coastwatcher whom future president Jack Kennedy discovered on a nearby island with his head bashed in. As the body count climbs, Billy must figure out whether Jack is a cold-blooded killer, even as war rages around him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Great Billy Boyle Mystery
- By Ronald on 11-19-15
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The Rest Is Silence
- A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery, Book 9
- By: James R. Benn
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
When an unidentified corpse washes ashore at Slapton Sandson England's southern coast, US army captain Billy Boyle and his partner, Lieutenant Piotr "Kaz" Kazimierz, are assigned to investigate. The Devonshirebeach is the home to Operation Tiger, the top-secret rehearsal for theapproaching D-day invasion of Normandy, and the area is restricted; no one seems to know where the corpse could have come from.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good installment in the series
- By Gary L. Richardson on 02-28-15
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A Blind Goddess
- A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery, Book 8
- By: James R. Benn
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
March, 1944: US Army Lieutenant Billy Boyle, back in England after a dangerous mission in Italy, is due for a little R&R, and also a promotion. But the now-Captain Boyle doesn't get to kick back and enjoy his leisure time because two upsetting cases fall into his lap at once.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Billy Boyle Army Detective
- By Queen of Everything on 05-09-15
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A Mortal Terror
- By: James R. Benn
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Two officers from the American troops stationed in Caserta, Italy, not far from Naples, have been found murdered. The MOs are completely different, and it seems like the officers had no connection to each other, but one frightening fact links the murders: each body was discovered with a single playing card: the Lieutenant, the 10 of hearts; the Captain, the jack of hearts. The message seems to be clear: If the murderer isn't apprehended, the higher ranks will be next.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Different Narrator
- By planetelaine on 03-12-12
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Rag and Bone
- A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery
- By: James R. Benn
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Billy is sent to London in the midst of a Luftwaffe bombing offensive to investigate the murder of a Soviet official. There's reason to believe that the crime could be connected to the recent discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest, where thousands of Polish officers were executed. Is a killer is out there, targeting Soviet officials in revenge for the Katyn Massacre? If so,the diplomatic stakes couldn't be higher as the uneasy relationship between the Soviets and the other allied powers hangs in the balance.
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Evil for Evil
- A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery
- By: James R. Benn
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 85
Fifty BARs (Browning automatic rifles) have been stolen from a U.S. army base in Northern Ireland. His uncle Ike Eisenhower sends Billy to recover the weapons which might be used in a German-sponsored IRA uprising. Bodies begin to accumulate as Billy finds unexpected challenges to his Boston-Irish upbringing and IRA sympathies. There are rogues on both sides, he learns.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Maybe the Best Billy Boyle Book
- By Wolfpacker on 05-27-12
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The First Wave
- A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery
- By: James R. Benn
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Billy's task is to help arrange the surrender of the Vichy French forces in Algeria. But dissension among the regular army, the militia, and DeGaulle's Free French allows blackmarketeers in league with the enemy to divert medical supplies to the Casbah, leading to multiple murders. Billy must find the killers while trying to rescue the girl he loves - a British spy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another Good Billy Boyle
- By Wolfpacker on 05-27-12
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Blood Alone
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- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Billy Boyle awakens in a field hospital in Sicily with amnesia. In his pocket is a yellow silk handkerchief embroidered with the initial L. Gradually he remembers: he has been sent ashore in advance of the troops with this token from Lucky Luciano to contact the head of the Sicilian Mafia. But he must also thwart a murderous band of counterfeiters of Army scrip led by Vito Genovese.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best yet
- By Linda on 08-28-12
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- By: James R. Benn
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What's a 22-year-old Irish American cop who's never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, hed barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight and perhaps die for England, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant cousin.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Best Kept Secret
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Lethal Pursuit
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Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn receive in the mail an unexplained key stamped with the letter Q. Barker, recognizing it for what it is, uses the key to unlock an anonymous door in the alleyway, which opens to an underground tunnel leading to Downing Street. The Prime Minister has a small task for Cyrus Barker. A Foreign Office agent stole a satchel in Eastern Europe, but was then himself murdered at Charing Cross. The satchel contains a document desperately wanted by the German government, but while the agent was killed, the satchel remains in English hands.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another great story on the series
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A Divided Loyalty
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Chief Inspector Brian Leslie, a respected colleague of Ian Rutledge’s, is sent to Avebury, a village set inside a great prehistoric stone circle not far from Stonehenge. A young woman has been murdered next to a mysterious, hooded, figure-like stone, but no one recognizes her - or admits to it. And how did she get there? Despite a thorough investigation, it appears that her killer has simply vanished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful timeless
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- By: James R. Benn
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5 out of 5 stars
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captured the time
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Lieutenant Bobby Steele, USN, is a fresh-faced and eager naval aviator: a "Nugget" who needs to learn the ropes and complex procedures of taking off and returning safely to his aircraft carrier. A blurry night of drinking lands him in an unfamiliar bed aboard the USS Oklahoma; later that day, the Japanese destroy Pearl Harbor. After cheating death and losing his friend in this act of war, the formerly naive Steele vows to avenge the attack.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too much
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5 out of 5 stars
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Appearing out of nowhere to horrify the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island, Florida, dozens of identical, ordinary-looking shoes float in on the tide and are washed up on the tropical beach - each one with a crudely severed human foot inside. Called away from vacation elsewhere in the state, Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to visit the crime scene - and, despite himself, is quickly drawn in by the incomprehensible puzzle. An early pathology report only adds to the mystery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WOW!!!! This book is EXCELLENT!!!!
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Publisher's Summary
A double murder in a French chateau just after D-Day threatens Allied operations, and US Army detective Billy Boyle is called to investigate.
July, 1944, a full month after D-Day. Billy, Kaz, and Big Mike are assigned to investigate a double murder close to the front lines in Normandy. An American officer and a member of the French Resistance were found dead in a manor house outside the town of Trevieres.
The investigation is shrouded in secrecy, due to the highly confidential nature of the American unit headquartered at the Manoir de Castilly; the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. This vague name covered a 1,000-man unit with a unique mission within the US Army: to impersonate other US Army units in order to deceive the enemy, causing them to think they were facing large formations, when in reality it was the 23rd (they called themselves the Ghost Army) creating deceptions by radio traffic, dummy inflatable vehicles, and sound effects. Not even the units adjacent to their positions were to know what they were doing.
The balance of power in WWII hangs in the balance - can Billy solve the crime before the Ghost Army is exposed?
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- Gary L. Richardson
- 10-09-18
Great Installment
I felt like the author really did a great job with the characters. Their interactions went a little further within the story and it held together well. The mystery was well done and I thought the ending was handled in typical Billy Boyle fashion. Well done and well narrated.
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- Friends and Feathers
- 09-08-18
The most bizarre was real!
I am privileged to know Jim Benn and his reputation for accuracy re. writing about military actions during World War II, so when I encountered one bizarre chapter about a Ghost army, I wondered if it was his vivid imagination or that it had really existed. That kind of wondering is what makes this book so intriguing. It is a page turner...I listened on Audible and grew to appreciate the narrator’s accents...esp. the French, German, and Polish. Now I have to wait another year for Billy Boyle and his buddies’ next escapades.