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Emerald Decision by Craig Thomas
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Emerald Decision (original 1980; edition 1995)

by Craig Thomas

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A British agent uncovers a secret nest of Nazi submarines. German agents multiply in Ireland. A massive Nazi parachute drop is imminent somewhere in the British Isles. CODE NAME EMERALD is put into effect - a secret plan so lethal and so illegal that all traces of it must be obliterated and all evidence buried. CODE NAME EMERALD One of the best British intelligence agents lost his life in this secret action. The war over, a top American author seeks information for his bestseller. His quest spells death, danger and violence, and at the heart of it all, lies the mystery of his father. "The great strength of his books lies...in the presentation of powerfully exciting bouts of action in authentically realized settings"REGINALD HILL, 'Books and Bookmen'… (more)
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Title:Emerald Decision
Authors:Craig Thomas
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Intrigue surrounds Operation Emerald Necklace, a Nazi plan to invade Ireland during WWII, using submarines specially designed to navigate minefields. In laying "Winston's Welcome Mat" for the incoming American delegation, the plot is discovered. Follows a father/son combination in the past/present, which at times becomes really confusing since they both have the same name. In the present, the son (a bestselling writer of histories) discovers the long buried mystery of the operation, intent on creating another bestseller (his father turns out to be involved on the British side). (SPOILER) Elements of the IRA, wanting to oust the current political leaders, use him as a tool to uncover the wartime actions of the British goverment, who deliberately let the American convoy sink, and believe they were torpedoed by the Germans, instead of victims of British mines, thus speeding their entry into WWII. Either story, past or present, would be fine on it's own...put together, it was all too much confusion. Besides, I kept waiting for it to get exciting, and it just never did. ( )
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For MY FATHER
who talked of the minefield that led to the decision
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E.R.D. & L.B.B.

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McBride had spoken to many former Wehrmacht officers, all of them reduced to scribbled private shorthand in his notebooks, or become disembodied voices on cassette tapes.
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A British agent uncovers a secret nest of Nazi submarines. German agents multiply in Ireland. A massive Nazi parachute drop is imminent somewhere in the British Isles. CODE NAME EMERALD is put into effect - a secret plan so lethal and so illegal that all traces of it must be obliterated and all evidence buried. CODE NAME EMERALD One of the best British intelligence agents lost his life in this secret action. The war over, a top American author seeks information for his bestseller. His quest spells death, danger and violence, and at the heart of it all, lies the mystery of his father. "The great strength of his books lies...in the presentation of powerfully exciting bouts of action in authentically realized settings"REGINALD HILL, 'Books and Bookmen'

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