Vincent dePaul Lupiano – författare

Operation Ginny is the story of the two Operation Ginnys.

Both military assaults by the Allied forces were unsuccessful, although the first was successfully recalled.

The second operation launched one month later, March 22, 1943, and ended up in the murder of all 15 American participants by the Nazis. It became one of the most notable and historic raids of WWII, providing much legal precedent and criteria for the Nuremberg Trials that began in September 1946.

While not a military success, Operation Ginny was unlike any other commando operation during WWII and would have consequences and effects on the conduct and illegalities of war and military criminal justice. And thereby hangs a tale….

The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in the United States. The Oradour Massacre is taught in school in France and the anniversary is commemorated every year. Today, Oradour is a destination for people interested in one of the most horrific events in French history. Each year, the devastated village attracts over 300,000 visitors worldwide.

On June 8, 1944, 15,000 men and 209 tanks and self-propelled guns of the Das Reich 2 Panzer Division rolled out of Montauban in southern France and began an ordered 450-mile march that ended at Normandy more than two weeks later. While in Montauban, a battalion from Das Reich surrounded Oradour-sur-Glane, massacred 642 men, women, and children, and razed the village to the ground. Das Reich became one of the most dreadful legends in the history of France and World War II.

This is the story of the Oradour massacre and its real cause: how two SS officers—a general and a major—“acquired” one million dollars’ worth of gold ingots while encamped at nearby Montauban, and how that led to the massacre in 1944.

Rayne Foster is on a covert mission to surveil the estate of Florida mafia boss, Donato "Cheese" Chesario. Photographing from a tree in a violent thunderstorm, Foster spots a camo-clad intruder sneaking into the mobster''s estate using a grappling hook. His intent: steal a box stamped with a Nazi swastika containing an enigmatic object Chesario brought back from Germany after WWII.

Fatal complications slam Foster with blistering surprise when a rogue FBI agent and his nefarious cohort known as the "Magician," kill their way into the estate to also steal the box. But the object of everyone''s intent has disappeared-an item that, in the wrong hands, will have severe international consequences.

Foster now senses her CIA field director has duped her. Suddenly, artifice and subterfuge conjoin with thunder and lighting and present a mounting death toll in and around the estate:

Bodyguard cut down in the foyer. One dead.

Mistress slammed by a burst of gunfire from the Magician''s MAC 10 machine pistol. Two dead.

Chesario, refuting any knowledge of the mysterious object, killed by the rogue FBI agent. Three dead.

The camo-clad intruder, meanwhile, has vanished empty-handed into the night.

Rayne finds her CIA handler with a bullet hole in the back of his head and the take-up reel that recorded their transmissions missing. Death toll: four and mounting.

The FBI agent and Magician are confident Rayne or the intruder took the box before they arrived.

As her field director intended, Rayne is now the bait. And she has no idea what is inside the box.