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A RED ROSE FOR MARIA by Donald Downes

A RED ROSE FOR MARIA

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Pub Date: June 8th, 1959
Publisher: Rinehart

American Intelligence gets Marcel (Commandant Jules Dellman) as part of their organization for the proposed Italian invasion and finds out that this professional soldier is all he is cracked up to be. His first mission into Italy falls short of effective success but his alliance with the spinster schoolteacher Maria leads to another operation which does forward Allied advances -- at a cost to both Marcel and Maria. High spy.