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  • Published: 18 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448154968
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 12 hr 53 min
  • Narrator: Saul Reichlin
  • RRP: $24.99

The Odin Mission

(Jack Tanner: Book 1): an absorbing, tense, high-octane historical action novel set in Norway during WW2. Guaranteed to get your pulse racing!




The first novel in the highly commercial new series featuring Sergeant Jack Tanner.

From the pen of bestselling author and historian James Holland comes this action-packed page-turner of a wartime thriller. Jam-packed with sharp dialogue, dynamic and authentic scenes and unforgettable characterisation, this is perfect for fans of Robert Harris, Bernard Cornwell and Ken Follett.
'Tanner is a chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando comics...Destined to be a series that will run and run.' -- Mail On Sunday
Sharpe for the Blitz years...The Odin Mission is a meaty, all-action yarn' - Sunday Telegraph
'A breezy, action packed, page turning, ripper of a yarn' -- ***** Reader review
'I just couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review
'A cracking tale' -- ***** Reader review
'Top class' -- ***** Reader review
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Norway, 1940: ONE SMALL FORCE STANDS BEFORE THE NAZI BLITZKRIEG.

The few remaining British troops retreat in the fact of a remorseless German advance. For Sergeant Jack Tanner and his stranded patrol, it is a desperate rearguard action.

With the odds stacked against them and the temperature dropping fast, they are not only fighting for their lives, but also to protect a mysterious Norwegian professor in whose hands lies the outcome of the war.

To survive, Tanner must outfox and outfight the pursuing Nazis who are desperate for the secrets the Norwegian holds. They will stop at nothing to secure them. . .

Jack Tanner's adventures continue in Darkest Hour.

  • Published: 18 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448154968
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 12 hr 53 min
  • Narrator: Saul Reichlin
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

James Holland

James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including Battle of Britain, Dam Busters, Burma ’44 and, most recently, Big Week, he has also written nine works of historical fiction, including the Jack Tanner novels.

He is currently writing an acclaimed three-volume new history of the Second World War, The War in the West. He has presented – and written – many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic, History and Discovery Channels.

He is also co-founder of the Chalke Valley History Festival and co-founder of WarGen.org, an online Second World War resource site, and presents the Chalk Valley History Hit podcast. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he also has a weekly podcast with Al Murray, We Have Ways of Making You Talk: Al Murray and James Holland Talk World War II. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940.

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Praise for The Odin Mission

Plenty of action... sharp dialogue and swift characterisation. The whole is intelligently structured so that this is absorbing and thoughtful as well as tense and exciting

Daily Telegraph

Old-fashioned, testosterone-fuelled escapism and Tanner is a chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando comics... Destined to be a series that will run and run

Mail on Sunday

Sharpe for the Blitz years... The Odin Mission is a meaty, all-action yarn

Sunday Telegraph

A good old-fashioned action hero makes his appearance in this page-turning thriller, the first of a planned series of Second World War novels featuring Sergeant Jack Tanner... James Holland, a respected military historian, has produced a story authentic in every detail

Telegraph