Operation Jackdaw

About the Book

In the closing days of World War II, a motley assortment of Allied agents are assembled for one of the conflict’s last and most unusual missions: to find Adolf Hitler’s huge, secret hoard of looted European art. Undercover and behind enemy lines in the heart of Nazi Austria, will the Operation Jackdaw team be able to save the masterpieces of western civilization, before the defeated Fuhrer orders the collection destroyed, rather than let it fall into non-Aryan hands? A rip-roaring adventure in the tradition of Where Eagles Dare; Operation Jackdaw hurls the reader relentlessly towards a climactic showdown deep beneath the Austrian Alps, with plenty of action to spare on the way.

About the Author

James Mackie went to two universities, winning a scholarship to study music at University College, Salford, England and later studied Librarianship and Publishing Studies at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. He is a fiction author (Operation Jackdaw, To Snare a Fox), and writes TV and movie screenplays. Hollywood producers have optioned some of his movie scripts. For many years, he worked outside Scotland as a free-lance writer, music composer, and orchestrator for some of the biggest music publishers in the world. He has produced nine Easy Listening CD Albums under the pen name Auralis.