The Phoenix Assault - Hardcover

For the allies, the unthinkable was about to happen: a plot that would create a new and infinitely more evil regime to rise like a phoenix from the ashes of Hitler's Germany. Three men - two Britons and an American - set off on a desperate mission behind enemy lines. Their task: the assassination of one of the most closely guarded men in Germany. All three are killers, all three carry secrets of their murky pasts, but one conceals the deadliest secret of all - a betrayal that could change the course of history.

John Kerrigan was born and brought up in Liverpool, educated at Oxford, and now teaches at Cambridge. He has published extensively on early modern literature, especially Shakespeare, on Romantic poetry, and on contemporary writing. His edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint
(1986, often reprinted) was widely acclaimed, and his study of Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (1996) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. In addition to editions and monographs, he has written numerous articles for the (London) Times Literary Supplement and the London Review
of Books, and poetry reviews for "little" magazines. Internationally prominent, he has lectured throughout Britain, Ireland, Europe and North America.