One More Hour of Daylight by C. M. Gray

Rating: 5 star rating

I just finished One More Hour of Daylight by C.M. Gray. It’s a big change for this author since he usually writes fantasy books, but he totally crushed this WWII spy thriller.

The story gets you right from the beginning, in September 1939. A 17 year old British kid named Derrick Sedgley finds a wounded German pilot who parachuted from his plane into a field near an Essex barn. The pilot asks for just one more hour of daylight before he does anything else. Derrick makes a promise to bring him breakfast and protect him but he panics and breaks his promise before morning.

Four years later in 1943, and Derrick is still eaten up by the guilt. He's a hardened spy for the SOE - Special Operations Executive in occupied Europe. He is running routes through Burgundy and sneaking downed Allied airmen to the Spanish border. Everything blows up when a mission in Hamburg goes completely wrong. Derrick goes on the run with a German woman named Lotte Braun, who has secrets that put a target on their backs.

Now the SS are raiding safe houses, and the southern escape corridor is compromised. The original german Luftwaffe pilot from 1939 is back and this time he is the enemy.

Derrick and Lotte end up on a freezing trek up into the Pyrenees mountains being shot at, and trying to survive. The cold of the mountains, and their fear from hiding in safe houses is causing paranoia to set in.

There are no cliffhangers. The ending gives you closure and ties everything up. It's a bittersweet wrap-up that brings the whole 1939 promise full circle right into the final 1943 mountain chase. It will definitely show you how you will feel about the cost of doing the right thing too late. I would definitely recommend this ebook. I love WWII stories, and this one didn't disappoint. Great book.

Thank you, BookSirens, Constance Books, and author C. M. Gray, for providing me with a copy of this free ebook in exchange for an honest review.

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