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Quercus has acquired the true story of Operation Suicide, a canoe-based raid by British commandos and their subsequent escape through France and Spain during the Second World War, which no one was expected to survive.
Richard Milner paid a “robust five-figure sum” for world rights in a two-book deal for Operation Suicide—The True Story of the Cockleshell Raid by Robert Lyman via Charlie Viney at the Viney Agency. Quercus will publish in 2012.
The book will tell the story of the 1942 raid, from the time it was conceived through to its execution, and the escapes and captures which followed. It will also focus on the French Resistance together with the extraordinary efforts by the English aristocrat Mary Lindell and her underground team to help Allied servicemen escape through Occupied France.
Milner said: “I’m thrilled to welcome Robert Lyman to Quercus with such a break-out book, and we look forward to growing his reputation as one of our finest narrative military historians.”