Billy Boyle - (Billy Boyle WWII Mystery) by James R Benn (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Billy Boyle, a young Irish-American cop from Boston, has just made detective when World War II breaks out. His "Uncle Ike" is Dwight D. Eisenhower, plucked from obscurity to command Army forces in Europe, and he wants Billy to be his personal investigator. Accompanied by an aristocratic Polish officer in exile and a beautiful British WREN, his mission is to catch a spy who may have been planted in Beardsley Hall, where the Norwegian government in exile is in residence.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>What's a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who's never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he'd barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight--and perhaps die--for England, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant cousin. But the general turns out to be Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose headquarters are in London, which is undergoing the Blitz. And Uncle Ike wants Billy to be his personal investigator. <p/>Billy is dispatched to the seat of the Norwegian government in exile. Operation Jupiter, the impending invasion of Norway, is being planned, but it is feared that there is a German spy amongst the Norwegians. <p/>Billy doubts his own abilities, with good reason. A theft and two murders test his investigative powers, but Billy proves to be a better detective than he or anyone else expected.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for the Billy Boyle series</b><i><br></i><br>This book has got it all--an instant classic.<br><b>--Lee Child</b> <p/>Spirited wartime storytelling.<br><b>--</b><i><b>The New York Times Book Review</b><br></i><br>A meaty, old-fashioned, and thoroughly enjoyable tale of WWII-era murder and espionage.<br><b>--</b><i><b>The Seattle Times</b></i><b><i><br></i></b><br>A fascinating mystery with the sensibility of a World War II movie.<br><b>--<i>Sacramento News & Review</i></b> <p/>"It is a pleasure marching off to war with the spirited Billy Boyle. He is a charmer, richly imagined and vividly rendered, and he tells a finely suspenseful yarn."<br><b>--Dan Fesperman<br></b><br>One of the best books I've read this year.<b><br><b>--</b><i><b>Mystery Scene</b><br></i></b><br>The sense of place is sensational, a wonderful backdrop to this complex and intriguing story.<b><br><b>--<i>Mystery News</i></b></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>James R. Benn is the author of the Billy Boyle World War II mysteries. The debut, <i>Billy Boyle</i>, was named one of the top five mysteries of 2006 by Book Sense and was a Dilys Award nominee. Subsequent books have received starred reviews in <i>Publishers Weekly </i>and <i>Library Journal</i>, and been listed as the <i>Bookpage </i>Mystery of the Month. Two have been tagged as a Killer Book by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. A librarian for many years, Benn lives in Hadlyme, Connecticut, with his wife, Deborah Mandel.
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