- The Wolf's Hour
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name = The Wolf's Hour
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author =Robert R. McCammon
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country =United States
language = English
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genre = War,Horror novel
publisher =Grafton Books
release_date = 12 October 1989
media_type = Print (Hardback &Paperback )
pages = 480 pp (hardback edition)
isbn = ISBN 0-246-13456-9 (hardback edition)
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followed_by ="The Wolf's Hour" is a 1989
World War II adventure novel with a twist byRobert R. McCammon . A British secret agent goes behind German lines to stop a secret weapon from being launched against theAllies . The twist is that this agent is awerewolf . The book also includes some of the agent's history, namely how he became a werewolf.Plot summary
It is 1944. A message from
Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works---which might have serious implications forOperation Overlord . The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris---now closely watched by theGestapo ---is to send in a personal courier.Russian émigré Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in
North Africa , Gallatin is parachuted into occupiedFrance , on a mission which will take him to the festering heart of the Third Reich on the scent of doomsday.As a master spy, Gallatin has proved he can take on formidable foes---and kill them. As a passionate lover, he attracts beautiful women. But there is one extra factor which makes Michael Gallatin a unique special agent---he is a
werewolf , able to change form almost at will, able to assume the body of a wolf and its capacity to kill with savage, snarling fury.In the madness of war, Gallatin hunts his prey---ready to out-think his opponents with his finely-tuned brain. Or tear their throats out with his finely-honed teeth.
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