[Black Hearts and Bullets 05] • Brave Hearts and Bayonets

1941, and the Nazi war machine is marching across Europe, sweeping away everything in its path. Josef Bierstein, head of the Rouen Resistance, is in hiding after recent skirmishes with the Gestapo, when an old friend from Paris asks for help. Josef is needed in the Netherlands where plans to disrupt the Nazi occupation are heating up. His old friend is calling in a favour, asking Josef to make his way to Amsterdam and help encourage a strike that might just raise attention to the crisis affecting the Jews in the city. Josef agrees to go, little realising how dangerous his mission will become and the peril he will place himself and his entire organisation in. His only hope will be to rely on unlikely allies and take risks he never could have foreseen.

In Britain, ex-Wehrmacht soldier, Klaus Ribbonkoff is working for the Secret Intelligence Service. They need someone to keep an eye on a raid to the Lofoten Islands to destroy fish oil factories. The mission is going to be a decisive one for the newly formed commandos and Klaus is to masquerade as a translator. An unwelcome guest on the operation, Klaus has to endeavour to prove himself to his comrades, while also working to gather vital intelligence for the British.

For Charlotte Guilliot, the war is drawing closer as she comes to the end of her SOE training. But, so near to her objective of being an agent, she is confronted with a dilemma when news reaches her that her missing father is in Cornwall. Charlotte's father is wanted by the police and the intelligence services, she has not seen him in over a year and has mixed feelings towards him. Yet, as she contemplates undertaking the most dangerous work of her life, the desire to say a potentially final goodbye to her father is too strong. Will Charlotte risk everything to trace a man she no longer recognises?

As Josef, Klaus and Charlotte fight their own respective battles in war-torn Europe, their lives inevitably intertwine and their adventures become a matter of life or death. There is no knowing what is around the corner or who can be truly trusted.

Brave Hearts and Bayonets is the fifth novel in the Black Hearts and Bullets series, published by Red Raven Publications - find us on Facebook!