League of Shadows

By Ron Terpening

There are certain betrayals for which there is no forgiveness. The OVRA. Mussolini's secret police... A wartime mission to infiltrate its ranks... A spymaster who betrayed his agents... Now, fifty... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975576100
• ISBN13: 9780975576106
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Stuyvesant & Hoagland
• Length: 402 Pages

Customer Reviews

Exciting Book!

This was a book about an OSS mission into Italy by three agents to infiltrate Mussolini's secret police.The mission goes awry because the agents are betrayed by their spy master.The story picks up to 50 years later where the three former agents are marked for death by their former spy master.After the death of one of the former agents his grandson picks up the investi- gation of why the old agents are being eliminated.He travels the world unraveling the answers to the mystery.Clue by clue he tracks down the spymaster and his hired assassin.A good novel of action as well as betrayal and deception.Well worth your read.

A novel of suspense and intrigue

League of Shadows is a novel of suspense and intrigue. In Rome, 1943, three spies strived to infiltrate Italy's Fascist hierarchy and their secret police. Now, decades after that long-ago mission went horribly wrong, an unknown enemy is hunting the former secret agents down. Their one hope for survival is an ex-cop obsessed with his mission. An addictive read, weaving together human drive, determination, and betrayal into a gripping whole.