Summary of Howard Blum 's Night of the Assassins

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 The spy was a professional watcher, and he was in the passenger terminal of Portela Airport outside Lisbon waiting to make a phone call that would be a death warrant. The call would be a death warrant for thousands of people.

#2 The spy had been at the airport for days, waiting for the Distinguished Personage to arrive. He had seen the young boy and his mother exit the plane, and he knew that no one gives up a seat on the plane to England.

#3 The German embassy in Lisbon was the headquarters of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence organization. Karsthoff was the station chief, and he lived his cover by being fun-loving and eccentric. He only had minutes to decide whether to warn Churchill about the Ibis’s flight plan.

#4 The Wehrmacht, with its typical Germanic exactitude, was an armed forces fortified by its allegiance to rules and procedures. Karsthoff made a decision that defied these regulations. He made flash priority contact with the flying leader of fighter wing KG 40 at Mérignac, and the klaxon sounded.

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Ebook: 12 de abril de 2022