{"product_id":"the-second-objective-9781401309527","title":"The Second Objective","description":"\u003cb\u003eBestselling author Mark Frost makes a triumphant return to fiction with this riveting World War II thriller, based on a shocking real-life German operation run by \"the most dangerous man in Europe.\"\u003c\/b\u003e Fall 1944. Germany is losing, and the Americans are starting to hope they'll be home for Christmas. Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny, \"Hitler's Commando,\" famed for his daring rescue of the imprisoned Mussolini, has just received orders for Operation \u003ci\u003eGreif\u003c\/i\u003e: He is to assemble a new brigade of 2,000 men, all of whom speak English, and send them behind Allied lines disguised as GIs, where they will wreak havoc in advance of a savage new offensive. And from those men, Skorzeny is to select a smaller group, made up of the twenty most highly skilled commandos fluent in American culture, to attempt an even more sinister mission--the second objective--which, if completed, not only would change the course of the war, but would change the course of history. Filled with real characters and details only recently released by the United States military, \u003ci\u003eThe Second Objective\u003c\/i\u003e is historical fiction at its most pulse-pounding, its most unpredictable, and its most compulsively readable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Frost\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Greatest Game Ever Played, The Grand Slam\u003c\/i\u003e, and the bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe List of 7, The 6 Messiahs\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBefore I Wake\u003c\/i\u003e. He received a Writer's Guild Award and an Emmy nomination for his work as executive story editor on the acclaimed television series \u003ci\u003eHill Street Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, and was the co-creator and executive producer of the ABC television series \u003ci\u003eTwin Peaks\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Los Angeles and upstate New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hachette Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50414984003858,"sku":"9781401309527","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_66cbc815-4c29-4cd0-8867-d20df23626dd.jpg?v=1729392365","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-second-objective-9781401309527","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}