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The Night They Came Ashore: Maine, 1944
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 5 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In November 1944, two men came ashore on the coast of Maine.
They arrived quietly, by submarine, under cover of darkness. Their mission-Operation Elster-was the last German espionage operation conducted on American soil during World War II. Within weeks, it would fail.
But not quickly. And not cleanly.
The Night They Came Ashore is a work of historical fiction that traces the mission's slow unraveling from three intersecting perspectives: a local military policeman trying to determine whether anything is wrong at all; a German agent rigidly loyal to ideology and procedure; and an American-born saboteur who discovers, too late, that comfort can be more destabilizing than fear.
As suspicion spreads along the coast and federal investigators close in, the novel explores how intelligence failures rarely announce themselves-and how danger often passes unnoticed, not because no one is watching, but because no one is certain what they are seeing.
Measured, atmospheric, and grounded in historical record, The Night They Came Ashore is not a story of espionage theatrics, but of attention: who pays it, who withholds it, and what happens in the space between.
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