Emerald Decision
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 show more 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' show lessTags
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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 show more 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. show less
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Craig Thomas was born in Cardiff, England in 1942, and was educated at Cardiff High School and University College, Cardiff. After completing his MA on Thomas Hardy, he went into teaching. Throughout his eleven years teaching English, Thomas longed to go into writing. At first he began to write only occasionally, producing a number of scripts for show more radio and TV, all of which were rejected. Eventually, after pleading with a script editor for some advice, he was told he could write, but not for radio. The script editor told him to attempt to write a novel. Thomas just happened to have an idea for a thriller which he has wanted to try as a radio serial. Instead, he turned it into a novel after eighteen months. The manuscript became Rat Trap, Thomas' first published novel. But it was Thomas' second novel, Firefox, which made him a best-seller both in England and the U.S., and enabled him to become a professional novelist. An American paperback house paid a significant sum for the book, and Clint Eastwood turned it into a movie. It was the first techno-thriller and the first action story to be set mainly in the Soviet Union. Thomas left teaching in 1977, having already completed his third novel, Wolfsbane. However, it was with his fourth novel, Snow Falcon, that Thomas claims he found his own voice. Thomas' subsequent books, including The Bears Tears, Winter Hawk, All the Grey Cats, The Last Raven and A Hooded Crow, all spring from his interest in "speculations" on geopolitical tensions and conflicts. His fourteen best-selling novels have consistently attracted praise and he is generally credited with creating the genre of the 'techno-thriller' with his novel Firefox. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Emerald Decision
- Original title
- Emerald Decision
- Original publication date
- 1980; 1981
- Dedication
- For MY FATHER
who talked of the minefield that led to the decision
In Memoriam
E.R.D. & L.B.B.
Friends. - First words
- 198-
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. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The sound of the car faded and disappeared on the morning air.
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