DESPERATE TIMES
Pat Johnson
Writers Club Press, April 2001, US$14.95, 172pp
ISBN: 0-595-17855-3
ABOUT 'DESPERATE TIMES':
'Desperate Times' mixes historical facts and characters with a what-if scenario and fictional characters to tell a story of WWII. Imagine a world where Great Britain succumbs to devastating Nazi attacks and is soon to be occupied. This is the world in which the main character, Harry Lloyd, lives. Assigned as the military attache to the U.S. in Washington D.C., Harry is called upon by his soon to be ex-Prime Minister, Winston Churchill and President Franklin Roosevelt, to return to Great Britain to retrieve the utra-secret Enigma coding machine before the Nazi occupiers discover it's existence.Harry agrees to take on the task reluctantly and returns to England at the same time the occupying forces arrive.
Along with historical characters such as British Secretary of State Anthony Eden, and soon to be American spy-master, 'Wild' Bill Donovan, Harry plans and executes his mission. Harry must survive assassination attempts by Nazi fanatics, a determined German SS officer and the additional burden of smuggling Churchill out from under the occupier's noses.
First Place Winner in historical fiction in the Purple Dragonfly Awards for excellence in children's literature, and named a U.P. Notable Classic.
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