Conville & Walsh

April, 1940. Nazi Germany has invaded neutral Norwat. Fleeing north from their brutal Blitzkrieg advance are three officers of the King’s Guard - men who have been entrusted by the Norwegian King with a vitally important mission: to get leading scientist Hening Sandvold out of Oslo and away to the safety of the Allied ranks.

The only military force standing between the Nazis and total victory are the poorly equipped and largely underprepared troops of the British 148th Brigade. Among them is Sergeant Jack Tanner, recently returned from the Middle East to join the 3rd Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Rangers. As the British are pushed back from Lillehammer, Sergeant Tanner and his patrol are left stranded in the mountains. As they struggle to rejoin their unit, they stumble across first Sandvold and his protectors, and then a French patrol of alpine troops.

The odds are stacked against this ragtag group of soldiers and civilians making it to safety. Trekking through snow-clad mountains with the Germans dogging their every move, Tanner is forced to try to outfox and outfight not only their pursuers but also the best efforts of his own side. And as the Allied resistance collapses, it quickly becomes clear that the small band of fugitives can rely on no one but themselves.

Yet Tanner knows he has to succeed. For, as he discovers, Sandvold holds the key to a vital secret - one that could change the outcome of the entire war…