"Remarkable and very readable. Patrick O' Donnell has transformed an obscure World War II spy mission into a vivid and improbable adventure yarn."—Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa

"Patrick O'Donnell is a first rate storyteller and one of our most perceptive historians. Few writers give as much of themselves to bring history to life. TTHE BRENNER ASSIGNMENT is vintage O'Donnell. It is a pulse pounding thriller that reads like a novel. I had trouble putting it down. I highly recommend it."—John C. McManus, Award-winning Author of ALAMO IN THE ARDENNES

THE BRENNER ASSIGNMENT is the never-before-told true story of a small team of American spies operating behind enemy lines on an impossible mission: sever the Third Reich’s main supply artery—the Brenner Pass.

Like a scene from WHERE EAGLES DARE, a small team of American spies parachutes into Italy under the noses of thousands of German troops. Their orders: link up with local partisans in the mountains and sabotage the well-guarded Brenner Pass, the crucial route through the Alps for the Nazi war machine. Without the supplies that traveled this route, the German war effort would grind to a halt.

Using thousands of recently declassified files, private documents, and personal interviews, military historian Patrick K. O’Donnell has written a cinematic World War II adventure story, filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, including the dashing and daring team leader, the romantic idealist who plans the operation, a seductive Italian countess who is also a double-agent, and the maniacal SS officer who will stop at nothing to kill the team and their partisan collaborators. Packed with action, suspense, intrigue, and even romance, this exciting true tale of survival and sabotage behind enemy lines is one of the greatest untold adventures of World War II.