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Ruins Book One: Corpses in Armor, A Novel in Two Parts, Part Two
Paperback
Series: The Ruins, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781958658055
Publisher: Nouveau Classic Imprints
Published: Aug 31 2022
Pages: 492
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
We Can't All Be Heroes
Libya, the Fezzan 1942
A German officer collaborates with a French Algerian priest and a Jewish Resistance leader to safeguard his munitions complex from the Free French in exchange for his protection of the inhabitants of their shared oasis from German and Italian authorities. A matter of opinion who is the boss.
She took his cigarettes, lighting two and offering him one. Where are you from? Berlin? Do I know you? Should I? Come on. It's not a difficult question, not even important. I just want to know.
He hesitated. I am Hauptmann Dieter Reineke. You do not know me.
You're right, I don't. I've never heard of you. She lowered her rifle, cradling it in her arms like an infant. I am Anna who knew Albert.
Albert. He considered the Alberts he knew.
Einstein, she blew a thin stream of smoke from her lungs. You know if you were young and handsome, Hauptmann, I might consider having sex with you. She laughed as his eyes flew wide, a reassuring tap of her steel on his arm. It's all right, mein Liebchen, we'll think of something else. And so they did.
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