The Raid

Monika Ritter #10

by Eoin Dempsey

With her beloved cousin, Sarah, still languishing in a labor camp in Linz, Monika Ritter and her fellow OSS operative, Hans Viertel, return to Austria on a double mission—to rescue Sarah and investigate a possible new wonder weapon Hitler is developing in the city he regards as his hometown. After parachuting in, they pick up an unexpected guest who forces them to change their plans.

In the labor camp at Linz III, Sarah cultivates her relationship with Wolfgang Baum, a foreman who is moved by the horror he witnesses in the factories. Baum agrees to help Sarah and her team, proving pivotal to their chances of survival.

After tying up loose ends in Salzburg, Monika and Viertel travel to Linz to find Sarah and uncover the secret Nazi plans. But when they realize the dangers the new super weapon might pose, Monika will be faced with the most difficult dilemma of her life. She will begin a race against time to save her cousin and alter events that could change the course of the war.

The Raid is the tenth novel in a new series by the #1 Amazon bestselling author of WHITE ROSE, BLACK FOREST, and THE MAUREEN RITTER SERIES. Download it and discover Eoin Dempsey’s books today.

271 pages, Kindle Edition

Expected publication March 17, 2026

About the author

Eoin Dempsey was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1977. He grew up in the beautiful Dublin suburb of Dalkey, where he and his friends would jump into the icy waters of the Irish Sea (during summertime) to prove their manliness. Eoin had a fantastic time attending Blackrock College, where he played rugby (poorly) and did his best to coast his way through. Eoin’s first ambition was to play rugby for Ireland. Due to a lack of talent, he soon abandoned that goal for the more reasoned path of the rock star. He played in bands through his teens and well into his twenties before harsh reality came calling, and his dreams of being the next Keith Moon faded.

Eoin made the ill-reasoned decision to study business in university and was accepted into University College Dublin to study Commerce in 1995. While Eoin did attend college, studying wasn’t his priority there.

He met his beautiful wife, Jill, while traveling to the USA in 1997, though it would be several years before he managed to break her down and they got together as a couple. It was during Eoin’s second stint in the USA, which he spent with his brother in New York City, that he decided to start writing a novel, for the express purpose of impressing women. This effort was met with mixed success. Eoin finished his first novel a year later. The over hundred and fifty rejections he received from publishers didn’t discourage him. He pinned them to his wall. After spending a year in Australia, where he was fired from many jobs, including picking red and green peppers and toiling for scallops miles out to sea on a fishing trawler, he returned home and decided to write again. Another novel followed while he phoned it in at a number of jobs in financial services in Dublin.

By this time Eoin had managed to convince Jill, the girl he’d met in the USA years before to move over to Dublin. She did so in 2004. It was the best negotiation he ever undertook. They were married in 2007. Jill’s more brilliant negotiating skills led Eoin to move to her hometown of Philadelphia in 2008, just in time for the economy to collapse. The plan to live with her parents for a few weeks turned into eighteen months, as Eoin struggled to retain employment in a fractured economy. It was during this time that he wrote FINDING REBECCA, which would go on to be his first published novel and be translated into fourteen different languages.

Eoin and Jill have three beautiful sons, Robbie, who was born in 2015, Sam, born in 2017, and Jack who came in 2019. Eoin enjoys playing with them and marveling at how much more talented they are at the sports that he loves, particularly golf.

Reviews

[Cindy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Monika is determined to rescue her cousin from one of the Nazi camps. Although her boss sends her and Viertel to do that, he also has other agendas that must be completed first. One of those is the destruction of a factory that is making a super weapon, the factory Sarah is working in. Michael flies Monika and Viertel and they parachute into Austria. Unfortunately, Viertel lands on an unfriendly house, and they are forced to make some decisions about the occupants. Sarah and the other prisoners are subjected to horrible abuse, their only savior is a factory foreman who sneaks food to them. This is #10 in an ongoing story, and it should be read from the beginning, The German Girl, to fully understand the series.
Thank you to the author for the Advanced Reader Copy. All opinions are my own.