Blood Oath

All Peter Houston wanted was to find the grave of the war-hero father he never knew and come to terms with the past. But after he traveled thousands of miles to a military cemetery in France, he discovered that his father's grave didn't exist. Now ruthless assassins hunt him through the cities of Europe as his private pilgrimage thrusts him into the shadowy aftermath of World War II and a deadly labyrinth of secrets and murder.

BLOOD OATH, the first espionage novel by acclaimed thriller author David Morrell, was his long-ago training ground for eventually writing his classic THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE. His then-publisher reduced the original manuscript by almost half, making this short novel, Morrell says, "seem like a Young Adult version of an espionage novel. It's unusual rough edges are part of its appeal." BLOOD OATH shows how an author learned his craft. This special e-edition contains Morrell's revealing introduction about his search for the truth about his own father's wartime death.

David Morrell is the author of First Blood, the award-winning novel in which Rambo was created. He holds a Ph.D. in American literature from Penn State and was a professor in the English department at the University of Iowa. His numerous New York Times bestsellers include the classic spy trilogy The Brotherhood of the Rose (the basis for the only television mini-series to premier after a Super Bowl), The Fraternity of the Stone, and The League of Night and Fog. An Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity nominee, Morrell is the recipient of three Bram Stoker awards and the prestigious Thriller Master award from the International Thriller Writers organization. His writing book, The Successful Novelist, discusses what he has learned in his four decades as an author. Publishers Weekly chose his Victorian mystery/thriller, Murder as a Fine Art, as one of the top 10 crime novels of 2013.