A mission ends in terror for agent Osbourne, as he floats in the sea off the coast of Brittany. A German warship hauls Osbourne to safety. The Allies are ready to play their dirtiest trick - a trained operative in a disguised E-boat with the name Lili Marlene emblazoned on its brow...
At eleven, Pip MacKenzie's life has already been touched by tragedy - a terrible accident that plunged her mother, Ophelie, into inconsolable grief. But on a foggy summer day, on a beach near San Francisco, Pip meets someone who fills her grey world with colour and light.
On a windswept summer day, as the fog rolls across the San Francisco coastline, a solitary figure walks down the beach, a dog at her side. At eleven, Pip Mackenzie's young life has already been touched by tragedy; nine months before, a terrible accident plunged her mother into inconsolable grief. But on this chilly July afternoon, Pip meets someone who fills her sad gray world with color and light. And in her innocence and in his kindness, a spark will be kindled, lives will be changed, and a journey of hope will begin.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 13 November 2010
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Cold Harbour
A mission ends in terror for agent Osbourne, as he floats in the sea off the coast of Brittany. A German warship hauls Osbourne to safety. The Allies are ready to play their dirtiest trick - a trained operative in a disguised E-boat with the name Lili Marlene emblazoned on its brow...
It's summertime in Monaco and Oz Blackstone is sitting on the verandah of his opulent mansion - one of three homes - idly gazing at Roman Abramovich's luxury yacht as it gently cruises into the harbour. Life doesn't get much better than this. But somebody knows where he lives.
