A Dying Fall

by Clive Egleton

Thursday, 20th July 1944. A foolproof plot to assassinate Hitler has failed on the same day that Major-General Paul Heinrich Gerhardt disappears from Germany and Colonel Hasso Jurgens puts a gun to his head and pulls the trigger. By choosing to commit suicide, Jurgens inadvertently points an accusatory finger at Gerhardt and sets in motion a remarkable chain of events. Two months later, Gerhardt appears in England to plot another assassination a killing that would collapse the German Home front, bring the German Underground into the open and give the Allies an easier passage into the country. The chance of success is remote, the chances of survival remoter as the chosen men make their way towards the Hall of Peace, Munster, on October 14th 1944.

256 pages, Library Binding

First published December 1, 2004

About the author

Clive (Frederick William) Egleton was a British author of spy novels.

He enlisted in the Royal Armoured Corps in 1945 to train as a tank driver while still underage. He was subsequently commissioned into the South Staffordshire Regiment for whom he served in India, Hong Kong, Germany, Egypt, Cyprus, The Persian Gulf and East Africa. He retired in 1975 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

His novel Seven Days to a Killing was filmed as The Black Windmill, starring Michael Caine. Escape to Athena is a novelization of the 1979 movie of the same name.