michael andré ford

A World War II military thriller set in May of 1943 Just months after Germany's stunning defeat at the hands of the Russians in Stalingrad, Allied forces succeed in pushing Rommel and his much vaunted Afrika Korps out of North Africa. Two German staff officers remain trapped in Tunisia. A Kommando unit is sent in to effect their rescue. Straightforward mission or trap? Meanwhile, Hitler and his Nazi leadership, growing more desperate to turn the tide on their beleaguered Eastern Front, panic when a Czech bio-weapon scientist and his laboratory work, codenamed the "Hydra Project," vanish mysteriously. Traitorous elements in Italian Military Intelligence have worked out a deal with London's MI-5 to deliver the Nazi's deadly Hydra Project to Churchill and Roosevelt. Special Air Service (SAS) troopers and US Army Rangers led by American OSS agent Major Steven Parker are sent into Italy to retrieve a conspiring Italian general, the scientist in question and Hitler's newest super w