دانلود رمان انگلیسی “عملیات گنجشک”

Four white walls tightened like a straitjacket. Florimond Duke, a US Army special forces colonel, sat on cold concrete beneath a bare light bulb that never blinked. His windowless cell reeked of mould, stale sweat, and old blood. Boots echoed outside. A door slammed. Then screaming. The Gestapo was at work again. The colonel knew his turn was coming. Guards had shuttled him from one prison to another for thirteen days, but this one under Belgrade, a tomb three storeys beneath the city, was the worst. Until now, the Nazis had weakened him with starvation. The real questioning was about to begin. He thought of the mission—a dangerous gamble authorized in the highest rooms of Washington: Operation Sparrow, a deception to pull German attention towards southeast Europe and away from Normandy before D-Day. In mid-March, he and two other elite American commandos had parachuted deep into enemy territory. It was a calculated risk to send someone like him behind Axis lines—someone who knew secrets that could cost lives, operations, maybe even the war. Now the Sparrows were alone, hundreds of miles from Allied forces in Italy. The army had already listed them as missing, presumed dead. No rescue was coming. The cell door shrieked open. Black-uniformed Gestapo guards filled the doorway. A sharp command cut through the air. Duke was yanked upright, his arms wrenched behind him, handcuffs snapping tight. The guards dragged him, stumbling, down the corridor and shoved him into an interrogation room. A Gestapo officer sat behind a metal table, glaring in icy silence. Duke noticed the iron ring bolted to the bloodstained wall. Finally, the German spoke in English: “All three of you will be shot tomorrow.”