Some soldiers fight for medals. Others fight because they have nothing left to lose.
Europe, 1940s.
Harry Carver was once a respected soldier.
Then one operation changed everything.
Twelve minutes of violence left eleven men dead, Harry disgraced and a career that should have ended behind prison walls. To the Army, he is a problem best forgotten.
Until Britain needs exactly the kind of man it has already condemned.
Dragged from confinement and placed before men operating far above ordinary military command, Harry is offered a choice.
Remain a prisoner.
Or go back to war.
His mission is as dangerous as it is politically sensitive: penetrate occupied Europe, uncover a hidden German operation and help drive a wedge between Nazi Germany and its Italian allies before their partnership becomes even more dangerous.
There will be no medals.
No public recognition.
And if Harry is captured, Britain will deny he was ever sent.
Working alongside soldiers, resistance fighters and intelligence operatives whose loyalties are never completely certain, Harry is thrown into a brutal campaign of sabotage, ambushes, firefights and deception.
But the deeper he travels behind enemy lines, the more he begins to suspect that his recruitment was never simply about the mission.
Someone knows exactly what happened during those twelve minutes that destroyed his life.
Someone knows why eleven men died.
And someone has been waiting for Harry Carver to return to the battlefield.
Now, surrounded by enemies and carrying the weight of men he could not save, Harry has one final chance to discover the truth.
But first, he has to survive the war.
The Prisoner’s War is an action-packed Second World War military thriller of courage, betrayal, covert operations and redemption, where the most dangerous orders are the ones that officially never existed.
He entered the war as a soldier.
He returned as a prisoner.
Now Britain needs him to become something else entirely.