Jack Tanner

Oppdrag Odin har fått en fantastisk anmeldelse i Haugesunds Avis. Les anmeldelsen her. 

“Oppdrag Odin er en spennende og lærerik actionroman om krigens første dager i Norge – aprildagene 1940, da det hersket kaos. Holland makter å kombinere historiske fakta med en svært underholdende og realistisk fortelling om krigshandlinger i Norge.” – Kjell Einar Øren

Forfatter og historiker James Holland kommer på Norgesbesøk i forbindelse med lanseringen av spenningsromanen Oppdrag Odin. Besøket finner sted 15.november.

I have always been a bigger lover of historical fiction.  For the past ten years I have been studying and writing about the Second World War and it occurred to me that there was no fictional books following the fortunes of an ordinary soldier through the Second World War.

In fact, although there is a fair amount of fiction set during the war, there are precious few action adventure books and those that there are tend to focus on special forces or secret agents.  I wanted my hero to be an ‘ordinary’ soldier and for him to experience the war and its various campaigns from the front-line.  Furthermore, the fortunes of the British army ebbed and flowed considerably.  My hero, Jack Tanner, could soldier through the war and in doing so could chart the progress of the allies during their long, bloody march to eventual victory. But it all begins in the snow and mountains of Norway…

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