From The Shadows (signed & dated)

Benn, James R.

ISBN 10: 1641292989 / ISBN 13: 9781641292986

Published by Soho Crime, New York, 2022

About this Item

1st edition hardcover in fine condition in fine dust jacket - signed & dated 9-8-22 by the author on the title page - Billy Boyle novel set in France in 1944 - new, unread copy.

Seller Inventory # msh8198

Bibliographic Details

• Title: From The Shadows (signed & dated)
• Publisher: Soho Crime, New York
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1641292989
• ISBN 13: 9781641292986
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • signed mystery a-f

About this title

Synopsis

US Army Captain Billy Boyle plunges into partisan warfare alongside betrayed French Resistance fighters in his seventeenth WWII investigation.

Southern France, 1944: Ex-Boston cop and wartime military investigator Billy Boyle is given a dangerous assignment—to extract a British Special Operations Executive officer from Crete and take him to France to serve on a security detail to identify fascist sympathizers. The mission gets even more complicated when Billy realizes how many enemies the officer he must protect has accrued. In the aftermath of the failed, and costly, Vercors uprising, tensions among Resistance groups are running high, and the mission turns far deadlier than expected.

On the quest to weed out Vichy collaborators, Billy takes up an independent investigation to exonerate an innocent comrade of murder. In the process, he crosses paths with the legendary SOE agent Christine Granville and the heroic 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up of Nisei soldiers who are already on their way to becoming the most decorated unit in the history of the US Army.

With sacrifice and subterfuge afoot, Billy doesn’t know who he can trust, or how close to death this case may bring him.

About the Author

James R. Benn is the author of the Billy Boyle World War II mysteries. The debut, Billy Boyle, was selected as a Top Five book of the year by Book Sense and was a Dilys Award nominee, A Blind Goddess was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, The Rest Is Silence was a Barry Award nominee, and The Devouring was a Macavity Award nominee. Benn, a former librarian, lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida with his wife, Deborah Mandel.