Lee Bishop

Stay Alive (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

B17 bomber pilot, Captain Steve Marshall, is shot down over France on his 20th mission after delivering his payload of bombs on German targets. The bombing runs from England over France into Germany claimed the lives of 55,000 Allied airmen during WW2. Being a member of a 10-man bomber crew was considered almost suicidal.

Marshall fights to stay alive when his parachute hits the ground hard near Reims. He is wounded, but manages to kill two German soldiers pursuing him. He is nursed back to health by a French nurse, who he falls in love with.

The road to freedom leads south through France, over the Pyrenees Mountains into neutral Spain and south to Gibraltar. The Comet Line is just beginning and is made up of a long string of safe houses provided by helpers, as the families are called. Helpers' lives often are torn apart by collaborators who report them to the Germans. But the French men and women are dedicated to driving out the Germans at all costs and helping Allied airmen survive is paramount to them.

Marshall makes it back to London thanks to the fledgling Comet Line that is run by several women. The Army Air Force loans Marshall, with his permission, to MI9. This British intelligence and counter-espionage agency has been established to set up evasion and escape lines through France, and Marshall agrees to return and help them succeed. He works first with the Comet Line and then with the Pat Line along the eastern half of France.

A high-stakes game of cat and mouse ensues between Marshall and his German adversaries as they try to kill or capture him while he is providing money, forged papers and supplies to the French men and women working the escape routes. His survival challenges are entwined in moral complexity as he makes quick decisions about whether to kill or not, while being pursued.

This intense, moving thriller showcases gripping human stories of valor and sacrifice by everyday French people dedicated to restoring freedom to their beloved country. Helpers protected and shielded nearly 5,000 airmen and assisted them in their escapes back to Great Britain during WW2.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Outlaws Publishing LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232970062
• Artikelnr.: 76105768

Autorenporträt

Following college at The University of Missouri and a stint in the U. A. Army, Lee began a 15-year newspaper career at The Phoenix Gazette in Phoenix, Arizona. He wrote more than two thousand news articles and feature stories for The Gazette.

His main work emphasis was government and politics, and most of his career was spent writing about the Arizona State Capitol, the Arizona House of Representatives and the State Senate. Lee also covered the Phoenix City Council and Maricopa County governmental issues. He wrote numerous stories about prominent Arizona politicians including U. S. Senator Barry Goldwater, Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives John Rhodes, and U. S. Senator Paul Fannin.

Lee had three novels published during and after his newspaper career, including Gunblaze by Leisure Books; the first book in the Border Legend series by Walker and Company, and Davy Crockett for Dell's American Explorers series.

He left the newspaper business to pursue a career in real estate and still owns a real estate company, Southwestern Homes Realty, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Lee and his wife, Sue, have two sons and two daughters, who all live in the Phoenix and Tucson areas with their families. They have eight grand-children.

He is an avid outdoorsman who walks his boxers two to three miles each morning. Lee's favorite passion is hiking the Grand Canyon at least once a year. He also plays golf regularly.

Lee has returned to writing novels on a full-time basis and concentrates on southwestern historical fiction with action and adventure being the dominant focus.