The War God

"A superb adventure story of the sort one is impelled to read at a single sitting". - BOOKLIST Italy, World War Two: Under provocation, American GI Joe Beccione kills a military policeman but later escapes from prison with his friend, Rosenberg, and flees to the mountains. There they join a gang of deserters of different nationalities who survive by plundering the supply convoys of German and Allied armies alike. The deserters are brilliantly led by the Padrone - Franz Kessler, a German. In the turbulent battles which follow, Beccione becomes convinced that their leader is motivated by more than just revenge. Eventually the realization dawns on him that Franz Kessler is playing the part of nothing less than a War God...