[The Legionnaires 01] • The Truth and the Lies

A mysterious debt of honour saves TV news reporter Jon King from almost certain death at the hands of an Islamic terrorist group - a debt owed to his father, a captain in the French Foreign Legion named Koenig.

Raised as an orphan, Jon never knew his true parents.

Now, he is determined to discover the truth about Koenig, even if it means embarking on the most lethal news story of his career.

He travels to France to stay with his lover Regine and with her help sets to work on his investigation.

She introduces him to Admiral Bonnard, a shady figure in French counter-intelligence.

Bonnard tells them that Koenig was a political hit-man, wanted for desertion, cowardice. And that he could have been a political assassin, killed in an attempt on de Gaulle’s life in 1962.

King’s instinct for truth tells him that this is a lie, and his search for the truth reveals that Bonnard has plenty to hide...

When a man who knew Koenig is brutally tortured and killed, it seems the murderous game in which Jon’s father was a player years before is still fought.

He starts to learn things wishes he hadn’t…

Now, trapped in the cross-fire of a civil war in Algeria, Jon is face-to-face with an impossible deadline...and faces the toughest decision he has ever had to make.

Whichever way he decides, someone close to him will die...

'The Truth and the Lies' is an action-packed thriller rich in military detail.

Praise for the author:

‘Well-crafted, convincing and intriguing’ - Tony Geraghty, author of MARCH OR DIE

After serving as an RAF Russian monitor in Berlin, Douglas Boyd did time in a Stasi political prison. Traded back to the West through the Red Cross, he avoided court martial and imprisonment, entering the film industry before moving to the BBC and becoming a TV producer. A full-time writer for the past 25 years, his best-selling books include ‘The Eagle and the Snake’ and ‘The Honour and the Glory’.

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