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The saboteur : a novel

Based on the true story of Norwegian commandos who pulled off a daring raid, this novel is a richly woven story probing the limits of heroism, sacrifice, and determination, about a man willing to risk it all for a mission even the most sophisticated espionage planners in Britain were unable to achieve.

CD Audiobook  - 2017
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  • ISBN: 9781427289872
  • Physical Description 10 audio discs (12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition Unabridged.
  • Publisher [New York] : Macmillan Audio, [2017]

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Read by Edoardo Ballerini.

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The Saboteur : A Novel
The Saboteur : A Novel
by Gross, Andrew; Ballerini, Edoardo (Read by)
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The Saboteur : A Novel


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 fianc e, 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