Return to the Field

Rosie Ewing #2

by Alexander Fullerton

In 1944, Rosie Ewing is returning to German-occupied France. She's carrying a radio, half a million francs, a pistol, and two cyanide capsules. Her destination is Finistère in northwest Brittany. D-Day is not far off, and the Maquis is still dangerously under-armed; part of her brief is to organize immediate para-drops of weaponry. There's also a chateau that's used as a resting place for U-boat crews and where naval top brass periodically gather; Bomber Command needs only a date and a few days notice. Rosie knows that the man who'll be meeting her on the ground tonight may be a traitor, that a frighteningly large number of agents have been arrested recently, and that the likely end of the road for women agents is Ravensbruck. Nothing like a safe bet.

378 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1997

About the author

Alexander Fullerton (1924–2008) was a British author of naval and other fiction. Born in 1924 in Suffolk and brought up in France, he was a cadet during the years 1938-1941 at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth from the age of thirteen. He went to sea serving first in the battleship Queen Elizabeth in the Mediterranean, and spent the rest of the war at sea - mostly under it, in submarines.

Fullerton's first novel SURFACE! sold over 500,000 copies. Then he worked on the 9-volume Nicholas Everard series that made his reputation.

Series:
* Nicholas Everard Saga
* Rosie Ewing

Source: Wikipedia

Reviews

[John Milliner]

Too much mental monologue

[peter walton]

Not the ending I expected , but who knows what will happen in the next book !!! Thoroughly enjoyed this book & the intrigue that was apparent thru' this book

[Larry D.]

Great WWII undercover detail

Excellent intrigue with a lot of back stories. Seemed very realistic. Nice to have multiple action lines to follow throughout the book.

[Michael Shaoul]

Good read but wordy

Very enjoyable overall but he does make you work hard to stay with the story for the first half of the book. One of the nice things about Fullerton is that he does sometimes kill off his major characters which helps build the tension. In the end I was very happy I stuck with the book. Less dramatic than his naval works but there is a clautraphobic tension inherent to the occupation that he makes quite tangible.