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The first wave : a Billy Boyle World War II mystery / James R. Benn.

by Benn, James R.

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Wheeler, 2009, c2007.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Algeria -- Fiction.

France -- Politics and government -- 1940-1945 -- Fiction.

Benn, James R. Billy Boyle World War II mysteries ; 2.

9781597229289 (lg. print : softcover)

Large print ed. (softcover)

523 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.

"Gale Cengage Learning".

"Lieutenant Billy Boyle reluctantly accompanies Major Samuel Harding, his boss, in the first boat to land on the shores of Algeria during the Allied invasion. Their task is to arrange the surrender of the Vichy French forces. But there is dissension between the regular army, the local militia, and De Gaulle's Free French. American black marketeers in league with the enemy divert medical supplies to the Casbah, leading to multiple murders that Billy must solve while trying to rescue the girl he loves, a captured British spy."--Publisher.

Historical mystery fiction.

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