Dead Ground

<p><b>A young British nurse experiences the devastating Spanish Civil War and the dark side of the espionage game in this gripping World War Two thriller from Graham Hurley.</b><br><br>1936. Anglo-Breton translator Annie Wrenne is working in Madrid when the Spanish Civil War breaks out. Annie becomes a nurse on the front line, but after falling in love with a patient, she ends up pregnant - and abandoned - by a man she thought she knew.<br><br>Annie passes the rest of the war in a haze, her only consolation her relationship with mysterious Republican fighter Carlos Ortega. Annie finds herself caught up in Ortega’s world, a web of intrigue, which leads to her recruitment into MI5. <br><br>On her first mission, Annie must pose as Ortega''s wife and head to Algeciras. Hitler’s Operation Felix - his plan to control the Mediterranean and force Churchill to the negotiating table - has been set into motion, and the ''couple'' must help prevent the Nazis from seizing Gibraltar.<br><br>But Ortega has secretly been working for the Nationalists, part of Madrid’s Fifth Column. If it falls to Annie - and Ortega - to save the day for the Allied cause, can she trust a man who has changed sides yet again? <br><br><b>From award-winning author Graham Hurley, the latest thrilling instalment in the Spoils of War Collection, a non-chronological series of novels set during World War II and featuring some of the most momentous stories and figures of the era. </b></p>