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The eye of the needle

As D-Day approaches, Faber, an aristocratic German spy known as "The Needle," knows the Allies' top-secret intended place of attack but is distracted by the affections of Lucy Rose, a lonely, strong-willed Englishwoman.

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  • "As D-Day approaches, Faber, an aristocratic German spy known as "The Needle," knows the Allies' top-secret intended place of attack but is distracted by the affections of Lucy Rose, a lonely, strong-willed Englishwoman."@en
  • "His weapon is the stiletto, his codename: "The Needle". He is Henry Faber, Germany's most feared agent in Britain. His task is to discover the Allies' plans for D-Day, and get them to Germany at all costs. A task that he ruthlessly carries through, until Storm Island and a woman called Lucy."
  • "In early 1944 in a secluded area on the east coast of England, American and British forces have constructed a "fake" military site. The Germans are meant to "discover" this operation through aerial photographs. However, a German spy has uncovered the deception and is trying to meet a German U-boat to report the Allied plan."
  • "In early 1944 in a secluded area on the east coast of England, American and British forces have constructed a "fake" military site. The Germans are meant to "discover" this operation through aerial photographs. However, a German spy has uncovered the deception and is trying to meet a German U-boat to report the Allied plan."@en
  • "The year is 1944. An ersatz armada of ships and planes are set up in East Anglia by the Allies...to divert German attention to the Calais shores and away from Normandy, D-Day's actual landing site. This is a secret that must be kept."@en
  • "A Nazi spy with the secret to D-Day looks for refuge on a tiny island of the British coast."@en
  • "The time is early 1944, the place a secluded area on the east coast of England. To keep the impending invasion of Normandy a secret, American and British forces have constructed a "fake" military site here -- complete with imitation ships, plywood airplanes, barracks and equipment. The Germans are meant to "discover" this operation through aerial photographs. However, a German spy has uncovered the deception and is trying to meet up with a German U-boat to report the Allied plan to the Germans. The whole outcome of the war hangs in the balance."@en
  • "His weapon is the stiletto, his codename: The Needle. He is Henry Faber, coldly professional, a killer, Germany's most feared deep-cover agent in Britain. His task: to discover the Allies' plans for D-Day, and get them to Germany at all costs. A task he ruthlessly carries through, until Storm Island and the enigmatic and beautiful Lucy ..."
  • ""It is early 1944, only weeks before the D-Day invasion of France. The Allies set up the First United States Army Group, a mock armada of ships and planes in East Anglia to divert German attention to the shores of Calais, and away from D-Day's actual landing site of Normandy. The deception plan seems to be working. Faber's codename is Die Nadel, "The Needle," after his favorite weapon, the stiletto. He is Hitler's handpicked agent, an independent man of extraordinary intelligence who has been "out in the cold" long enough to scorn home-based superiors." -- Back cover."
  • "One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin--code name: "The Needle"--Who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely English woman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life."@en
  • "One enemy spy knows the secret if the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin--code name: "The Needle"--who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life. Ken Follett's unsurpassed and unforgettable masterwork of suspense, intrigue, and dangerous machinations of the human heart."
  • "It is early 1944, only weeks before the D-Day invasion of France. The Allies have set up the First United States Army Group, a mock armada of ships and planes in East Anglia to divert German attention to the shores of Calais, and away from D-Day's actual landing site of Normandy. The deception plan seems to be working. But if one enemy agent should learn of the play, just one ... Faber's code name is Die Nadel, "The Needle," after his favorite weapon, the stiletto. He is Hitler's hand-picked agent, an independent man of extraordinary intelligence who has been "out in the cold" long enough to scorn home-based superiors. He was planted in London years earlier, and now he has discovered the secret that will destroy the Allies and defeat their D-Day landing, if he can escape to Germany with it. Godliman is a British Military Intelligence officer with MI5. He is a former professor of medieval history and also a former agent who has forsaken his medieval kings to get back in the game. As Die Nadel moves quickly across England, he is tracked by Godliman in a murderous duel of ingenuity and insurance."@en
  • "As the Allied armies prepare for D-Day, "Der Nadel," Hitler's handpicked agent, attempts to escape London with the secret that will bring the Allies down."@en
  • "As the Allied armies prepare for D-Day, "Der Nadel," Hitler's handpicked agent, attempts to escape London with the secret that will bring the Allies down."
  • "A German spy learns of the Allied D-Day strategy and the British Intelligence is faced with preventing his delivering the plans to Hitler."
  • "One enemy spy knows the secret to the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin -- code name: "The Needle"--Who holds the key to ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is beginning to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life."@en
  • ""One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin--code name 'The Needle'--who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory."--Cover."@en
  • "One brilliant spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest deception. His code name: "The Needle". Only one person stands in his way, a lonely English woman on a remote island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life."@en
  • "An extraordinary World War II German agent with secret information about the Allied D-Day landing waits at an English lighthouse to be picked up by a submarine and becomes sidetracked by an affair with a paraplegic's wife."@en
  • "One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin--code name: "The Needle"--who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely English woman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life."
  • "During World War II, a German spy in England desperately tries to get information back to Germany."
  • "Met man en macht probeert de Britse geheime dienst een Duitse spion onschadelijk te maken die het slagen van de geallieerde invasie in Normandië bedreigt."
  • "Henry Faber is Germany's under cover agent in Britain. His special mission is to discover the Allies plans for D-Day and get them to Germany at all costs. All goes well, until Storm Island and Lucy."

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  • "The eye of the needle"
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  • "Eye of the Needle"
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  • "Eye of the needle Unabridged narration by Graeme Malcolm"@en
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