Never Say Die (They Who Dared)

From Andy Ryan, the Author of ‘BRAVO TEN’, an exciting and action packed WW2 adventure series. War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest and the assassin's trade…1942. The Second World War was at its height and still going the way of the Axis powers. In neutral Spain that same war was being carried forward in a secret and deadly game of cat and mouse. British intelligence were helping downed allied airmen and escaped prisoners of war from across occupied Europe to evade the Nazis then return to Britain where they could rejoin their units and carry on the fight.Determined to stop this, the Germans dispatched a special action unit of the Abwehr - the Nazi’s own intelligence service - to northern Spain with orders to destroy the escape pipeline and those operating it.The British soon found themselves under attack, their escape lines disrupted and personnel killed. It was vital that something be done to reverse the disaster which had overtaken the Spanish operation. It was soon realised that there was only one way out of this situation - to call on the services of Department Seven………. Department Seven had been raised the previous year, after the British Prime Minister - Winston Churchill - ordered the establishment of an ultra secret branch of the existing intelligence apparatus to take the fight to the enemy with such ferocity it would shake them to their very core. Department Seven’s brief was simple - to assemble a team of men who were capable of carrying out extreme acts of violence under the most challenging of circumstances. In Churchill's own words "Dangerous operations are best undertaken by dangerous men, so I want cut-throats and brigands of the most bloodthirsty kind who will strike at the black heart of the beast, butchering the Nazis and their allies wherever they rear their ugly heads, with no thought for compassion or quarter." Operating far beyond the normal remit of secret operations, Department Seven soon established its reputation as an instrument of death - with assassination and sabotage as its watchwords - to be called upon when only the most extreme of measures were required. This unique type of ungentlemanly warfare was just what was required in Spain so, when the scale of the problem was presented to them, D7 soon realised that they would have to dispatch their best man…………..