Thunder Point

Thunder Point
Jack Higgins

SEAN DILLON’S CHOICE: LIFE IN PRISON OR A SUICIDE MISSION.A diver discovers a priceless treasure off Thunder Point: a German U-boat containing proof that Martin Bormann escaped from Hitler’s bunker, bearing the most explosive secrets of the Third Reich.Among them: the names of British Nazi sympathisers – some of them pillars of the establishment – and the devastating document known as the Windsor Protocol.For the sake of national security, the U-boat must be destroyed, no questions asked.Sean Dillon, Britain’s most wanted terrorist, is about to be made an offer he cannot refuse…

Thunder Point

Copyright

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First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph Ltd 1993

Copyright © Jack Higgins 1993

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780007456058

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Version: 2015-01-13

Dedication

For my daughter Hannah

Epigraph

Whether Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, Head of the Nazi Party Chancellery and Secretary to Adolf Hitler, the most powerful man in Germany after the Führer, actually escaped from the Führer Bunker in Berlin in the early hours of 2 May 1945 or died trying to cross the Weidendammer Bridge has always been a matter of conjecture. Josef Stalin believed him to be alive, Jacob Glas, Bormann’s chauffeur, swore that he saw him in Munich after the war and Eichmann told the Israelis he was still alive in 1960. Simon Wiesenthal, the greatest Nazi hunter of them all, always insisted he was alive and then there was a Spaniard who had served in the German SS who insisted that Bormann had left Norway in a U-boat bound for South America at the very end of the war…

Table of Contents

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Title Page (#uf331dd62-27a0-5d4f-9dac-e05f8f278aaf)

Copyright (#uc42f43b2-b1d3-5a40-959d-764e3796d6d0)

Dedication (#u69ca9b58-6268-5fa5-9ecd-de8cb35e0f37)

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Epigraph (#u600274cc-4045-5484-b67f-eaa94f8b6810)

Prologue (#ue361fcd3-56a5-5441-a9d2-fd331b738e99)

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