Operation Embarrass Cormac O'Donell Adventures, #1

OPERATION EMBARRASS

A secret war. A doomed ship. A truth powerful men will kill to bury.

Genoa, 1947.

Former intelligence officer Cormac O'Donnell is supposed to be watching ships.

Instead, he starts finding bodies.

What begins as routine port surveillance becomes something far more dangerous when refugee vessels bound for Palestine begin appearing in his reports... and disappearing at sea.

Then a passenger ship explodes in Naples Harbour.

The official explanation comes quickly.

Too quickly.

As Cormac follows a trail of altered manifests, missing names, sealed orders, and falsified reports, he uncovers evidence of a clandestine operation reaching from the docks of Italy to the highest levels of British intelligence. Someone is tracking refugee ships. Someone is sabotaging them. And someone has already prepared the lies that will cover the dead.

Every answer leads to another betrayal.

Every warning arrives too late.

And every ship that sails may already be marked for destruction.

Forced into an uneasy alliance with a courageous Jewish resistance operative, Cormac must choose between the country he serves and the innocent lives caught in the crossfire of politics, espionage, and empire. But exposing the truth will cost him everything: his career, his freedom, his reputation, and perhaps his life.

Because when governments write history, witnesses become liabilities.

And the most dangerous secret is not who planted the bomb.

It's who ordered it.

Inspired by real events, Operation Embarrass is a gripping historical espionage thriller filled with hidden agendas, moral betrayals, covert operations, and life-or-death suspense.

For readers of Robert Harris, Alan Furst, Daniel Silva, and Ken Follett, this is a tense and unforgettable story of conscience, courage, and the people who risked everything to save lives from a war that officially never happened.

Tagline option for the top of the Amazon page:

"The ship was destroyed. The evidence survived."

Or even stronger:

"The bomb was hidden in the hold. The truth was buried in the files."