Brandenburg (66 page)

His orders from Rome were clear.

This was one astonishing secret that had to be kept hidden from the world.

Flames started to lick around the map case. “Dear God, no.”

He scrambled down the rocks toward the wreckage.

© FRED CANNON

GLENN MEADE
was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1957. Several of his novels have been international bestsellers, translated into more than twenty languages, and have enjoyed both critical and commercial success. He worked in the field of pilot training for Aer Lingus for many years and as a journalist for the
Irish Times
. He now writes full-time.

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Originally published in 1994 by Hodder & Stoughton in Great Britain.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the original edition as follows:

Meade, Glenn.

Brandenburg / by Glenn Meade.—1st ed. p. cm.

“A Thomas Dunne book.”

ISBN 0-312-15483-6

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PS3563.E16845B73 1997 96-54630

813'54—dc21

ISBN 978-1-4516-8823-8

ISBN 978-1-4516-8824-5 (ebook)