Alistair MacLean · 1967 · thriller

Alistair MacLean's 1967 WWII thriller. A team of Allied agents parachutes into the snowbound Bavarian Alps on a suicidal mission: to rescue a captured American general, who carries the secrets of the D-Day invasion in his head, from the Schloss Adler - a Gestapo fortress crowning a mountain, reachable only by cable car. But among the team, a traitor waits.

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   England

   From an airfield in England, Major John Smith and his team of agents - among them the American Ranger Schaffer - take off on a mission to snatch a captured general from the German Alps.

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   Schloss Adler

   Deep in the Bavarian Alps they parachute into the snow beneath the Schloss Adler, a Gestapo fortress reachable only by cable car - where a general holds the secrets of D-Day, and a traitor hides among Smith's own men.