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THE BERLIN ASSIGNMENT

Mark Butterworth

ISBN 978-1-916668-26-3

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Publication: 29 FEBRUARY 2024
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ISBN: 9781916668263
Price: £9.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 198 x 129 mm
Extent: 264 pp
Thema: FV Historical Fiction

Author location: Essex
Book location: Berlin

Comparative title: 9781803135892 Pearl River

• A historical novel following ex-Spitfire pilot
and now test pilot for de Havilland, Adam
Devon, as he is assigned to a secret operation
to retrieve a Russian missile expert from
Berlin.
• After his plane crashes in East Germany, it is
up to his fiancée and one-time Israeli Secret
Service agent, Hannah, to form unlikely
alliances and lead the rescue mission.
Born in London and now living in Essex, Mark Butterworth worked • The second book by author Mark Butterworth
in the City of London before becoming a full-time writer. Mark held a and the sequel to The Pearl River.
private pilot’s licence for fifteen years and has made more than fifty
parachute jumps. Mark enjoys running, golf and salsa dancing, has In the perilous atmosphere of the Cold War, Adam Devon,
two grown up daughters and a Springer Spaniel called Arthur. The a civilian pilot, becomes unwittingly embroiled in an MI6
covert operation to extract a Russian missile scientist from
Berlin Assignment is a sequel to The Pearl River, Mark’s debut novel. Berlin. But there are traitors in the British Establishment
passing information to the Russians and as the assignment
starts to go wrong Devon becomes trapped in East
Germany.

Hannah, Devon’s fiancée and one-time agent for the Israeli
Secret Service, leads the mission to rescue him and the rest
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and resilience prevail against all odds?