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The Saboteur

A Novel

by Andrew Gross
Edoardo Ballerini
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Based on the true story of Operation Gunnerside—the Britain-sponsored mission that sent Norwegian commandos into the Nazi-occupied Telemark region of their country to destroy the enemy's nuclear weapons program—New York Times bestselling author Andrew Gross's The Saboteur is a riveting World War II thriller of espionage and action.
February, 1943. Both the Allies and the Nazis are closing in on attempts to construct the decisive weapon of the war.
Kurt Nordstrum, an engineer in Oslo, puts his life aside to take up arms against the Germans as part of the Norwegian resistance. After the loss of his fiancée, and with his outfit whittled to shreds, he commandeers a coastal steamer and escapes to England to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis's progress towards an atomic bomb at an isolated factory in Norway. There, he joins a team of dedicated Norwegians in training in the Scottish Highlands for a mission to disrupt the Nazis' plans before they advance any further.
Parachuted onto the most unforgiving terrain in Europe, braving the fiercest of mountain storms, Nordstrum and his team attempt the most daring raid of the war, targeting the heavily-guarded factory built on a shelf of rock thought to be impregnable, a mission even they know they likely will not survive. Months later, Nordstrum is called upon again to do the impossible, opposed by both elite Nazi soldiers and a long-standing enemy who is now a local collaborator—one man against overwhelming odds, with the fate of the war in the balance, but the choice to act means putting the one person he has a chance to love in peril.
Praise for Edoardo Ballerini:
"Gross's saboteur is a champion of patriotic devotion and physical endurance, and Ballerini captures his grace and humanity, as well as his courage, in a manly timbre."—AudioFile Magazine on The Saboteur
"Actor Ballerini turns the scene into a fascinating radio drama...These conversational moments, delicately crafted by Gross and splendidly performed by Ballerini, have a profound effect on the novel's equally well-enacted, action-filled, breathless escape sequence."—Publishers Weekly on The One Man

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    August 22, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9781427289889
      • File size: 339217 KB
      • Duration: 11:46:42

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 19, 2017
      For this average WWII thriller, bestseller Gross (The One Man) draws on the true story of the efforts of a small team of Norwegian patriots to halt the Nazi program to build an atomic bomb by sabotaging heavy water production at a remote factory in Norway. The book’s sluggish first half centers on the team’s preparation for the mission and the wait for an ideal insertion moment. The second half also contains long periods of relative inactivity, though the action picks up whenever the valiant Norwegians encounter the Germans and their supporters, the Hirden of the Nasjonal Samling party. In an author’s note, Gross reveals that his lead, Kurt Nordstrom, is based on a real participant in the raids on the Norsk Hydro factory and Mael ferry, but Nordstrom comes across as a caricature of the hardy and capable hero. Nordstrom’s primary foe, Capt. Dieter Lund of the Hird, is similarly a stock villain. Still, history buffs may appreciate the skill with which Gross combines fact and fiction. 125,000-copy announced first printing; author tour. Agent: Simon Lipskar, Writers House.

    • Good Reading Magazine
      Kurt Nordstrum has been trying to avoid the attention of the Nazi regime as it envelops Europe, but is drawn in to the conflict after the death of his fiancée. She was randomly executed by the Nazis in reprisal for the death of an officer killed by resistance fighters. An engineer by training and resistance fighter by choice, Nordstrum is sought by the interim government’s enforcers. They are known as quislings after their leader, Vidkun Quisling, a puppet ruler under the control of Berlin. Enraged by the treatment of a mother and her sick child by one of the quislings, Nordstrum throws the agent to his death in the middle of a ferry crossing. Now he is a target for wider investigations. Nordstrum commandeers a ship and flees for England. He has important news for the British War Office: the Germans plan to use nuclear facilities in the Telemark region to create heavy water as part of their atomic weapon research. After an initial raid fails, Nordstrum and his ragtag group of Norwegian loyalists and Allied soldiers are thrown in to the forest with a vague plan – to take the facility at any cost and destroy the heavy-water supplies before the Nazis can get them to Berlin. Andrew Gross, a world-class writer of historical thrillers, has created a fresh take on the heroes of Telemark and their efforts to stop the Nazi nuclear weapons program. This engaging thriller is sure to entice new fans and please existing ones. Reviewed by David Johnson

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