Dead Ground

A young British nurse experiences the devastating Spanish Civil War and the dark side of the espionage game in this gripping World War Two thriller from Graham Hurley.1936. Anglo-Breton translator Annie Wrenne is working in Madrid when the Spanish Civil War breaks out. Annie becomes a nurse on the front line, but after falling in love with a patient, she ends up pregnant - and abandoned - by a man she thought she knew.Annie passes the rest of the war in a haze, her only consolation her relationship with mysterious Republican fighter Carlos Ortega. Annie finds herself caught up in Ortega-s world, a web of intrigue, which leads to her recruitment into MI5. On her first mission, Annie must pose as Ortega''s wife and head to Algeciras. Hitler-s Operation Felix - his plan to control the Mediterranean and force Churchill to the negotiating table - has been set into motion, and the ''couple'' must help prevent the Nazis from seizing Gibraltar.But Ortega has secretly been working for th