Jubilee by Conor Bender

Dieppe. Summer, 1942. Lord Louis Mountbatten, Commander of the Combined Operations Office, has his eye on Northern France. He has an audacious plan for an Allied raid on this quiet fishing port in Normandy. But the head of Special Operations, Charles Hambro, has his doubts. Mountbatten’s plans with a political motivation seems to be  dangerously lacking in detail.

Bowing to Mountbatten’s seniority – and against his better judgement – Hambro sends his best agent, Arthur Cutter, undercover to France. Cutter Smuggles himself into the outskirts of Dieppe. He links up with a young, hostile, and female French resistance fighter, Talia Crevier. Hence, as the Allied Forces attempt to penetrate the Nazi Atlantic Wall, Cutter and Crevier must find a way to trust each other – and infiltrate the Nazi forces within the town in a desperate attempt to give the raid a fighting chance. But as circumstance and Nazi cunning encircle them, the odds of success for Mountbatten’s Operation Jubilee grow smaller and smaller….

Author Bio:

I’ve been passionate about books since an early age when my parents encouraged me to read books. Authors such as Ken Follett, Tom Clancy, Leon Uris, and Robert Harris captivated me as a boy. Moreover, the rich characters and vivid settings in the stories were inspiration to me to become a writer, and shape my writing style. I started writing while in high school, but I never had any aspiration to become a published author. For me, I just enjoyed writing a good story and that was enough.

I attended the College of Charleston with the intent of becoming the next Indiana Jones. Majoring in Classics and minoring in Archaeology, I had a foundation set to go off and retrieve the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail, but life has a funny way of disrupting even the best laid plans. Instead, I became a Marine. While in the Marines, I served as a logistician and foreign military advisor. I had the unique privilege to deploy to Sicily, Senegal, and Norway during my six years of service, and those experiences had an influence on  the stories and characters in my books.

Jubilee is my first published work which I started to write while at Sicily. If anyone were to ask what inspiration I got to write this World War II thriller, I would say it was the service with Marines and Sailors . The bitter reality that nothing in the military is ever as clean cut as seen in the movies motivated me to tell a different story: a story of struggle and humanity in which human factors impact the outcome of history.

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