August 1942.
A party of British commandos were on a submarine off Beirut, nervously cramming themselves with ham sandwiches and tea. The small landing party undertook an amphibious commando attack on Rhodes. Twenty-four-year-old Sgt Tom (Tommy) Bishop, was among them. He was from the Scots Guards and is a natural soldier, but refused several commissions as he hated responsibility.
Following the disastrous Rhodes mission, however, Bishop finally accepts a commission running the Special Service Brigade. Bishop's unit is small and highly trained, masters at getting into enemy installations, locating and taking secret material and getting out alive. But this latest mission is more extreme and dangerous than any before it, and there's no guarantee that Bishop or any of his team will survive. . .
Praise for Iain Gale:
'Gale handles the military material superbly . . . Very exciting' Daily Telegraph (on the Jack Steele series)
'His brutal, bloody detail catches the chaos of battle . . . His prose is a sand-blown lens from the front-line' Daily Mail (on Alamein)
'He reveals the chaos, triumph and sadness of the desert war expertly showing every protagonists' point of view' Patrick Mercer (on Alamein)
'Knife-edge realism mingles with strategy, glory and tragedy in Gale's artistic narrative' Oxford Times (on Four Days in June)
About the Author: Iain Gale, art critic, journalist and author, comes from a military family and has always been fascinated by military history. He is an active member of the Scottish Committee of the Society of Authors and the Friends of Waterloo Committee. He is the Editor of Scotland in Trust, the magazine for the National Trust of Scotland, and founded the Caledonian magazine. He lives in Edinburgh.
