Midnight’s Conflict (The Midnight Series Book 5)
About
As Allied forces prepare to invade North Africa, SOE agent Jessie Fordham (code name Midnight) is still fighting her way back from the wounds of the last mission. But when whispers of a deadly new Nazi weapon begin to surface, recovery is no longer enough. She must return to the shadows.
While a covert Allied team races across Vichy and Nazi-controlled North Africa to uncover the secret before it can turn the Torch landings into a massacre, Jessie battles her own scars, grief, and the cost of survival. Joining the hunt means stepping back into a world of spies, false identities, divided loyalties, and betrayal, where every choice could mean death, and every secret could change the course of the war.
As the noose tightens around Algiers and the desert beyond, Jessie must lead, trust, and fight alongside a fragile band of operatives in a mission that may decide the fate of thousands.
A sweeping WWII thriller of espionage, sabotage, courage, and survival, this is Agent Midnight’s most dangerous mission yet.
Praise for this book
In this book, you may find yourself biting your nails as Jessie Fordham et al endure more traumatic situations with the Germans and their operatives. First, we find Jessie preparing for, then engaged in, the Allied Operation Torch in North Africa. The book is sprinkled with familiar characters from Jessie’s previous wartime experiences, but also some new ones. Readers will be treated to watching as the Allied intelligence services work together (mostly) to prepare Algiers for the invasion.
Most interesting to me is the object of their mission: find and render inactive a German “special weapon”. I was surprised to learn of this weapon, as in none of my previous readings had I come across it. I will leave it to the reader to discover more in the book.
Again, the author excels at “showing us, not telling us”. The action is well plotted so that the reader is pulled right into the book, and stays to the dramatic ending. Happily, the author plans to continue Jessie’s adventures through the rest of the war, which I am eager to read.
If I could give this book another star, or an A *plus, I would. If you think you've had enough of WW2 stories I would say that this is out of the norm and unmissable. Book 6 in this on going Midnight story is as heart pounding, suspenseful and absolutely gripping as the previous 5. This is not a series in the usual sense. it is superbly written with clearly a lot of research behind it. It starts in book 00, Midnight's Shadow, the prequel, set in early 1939 with Jessie Fordham, 19 year old daughter of a British diplomat who works the embassy in Paris and gives Jessie a small taste of espionage. Continuing to the German invasion and beyond, Jessie's, now codename Midnight, involvement in the French resistance, allies enemies, betrayal, much danger and much more. In this book we are in 1942 in North Africa. A German officer that Midnight (Jessie) has had a run in with before is testing a new, extremely dangerous secret weapon and a crack group of SOE and OSS, the elite organisations of Britain and the US, are sent to find and disarm it. There is a lot packed into this book. The only disappointment is the wait for Book 7. If you haven't read the previous books, you're fortunate to be able to read up to date without waiting for the next instalment!