Tundra Airport
1 September 1939. Captain Stig Blumfors lands at a small, isolated military airfield deep in Swedish Lapland, carrying sealed orders: war has broken out, Sweden has declared its neutrality, and the airfield is to be cut off from the outside world. Thus begins a long and gruelling confinement, interrupted only by the arrival of lost or distressed British and German aircraft. As second-in-command of the airfield, he sees his mission as maintaining Sweden’s neutrality at all costs, a near-impossible task given the base commander’s pro-German sympathies. In this context, Blumfors begins to write a personal journal.
12 February 2023. As Sweden’s accession to NATO is being blocked by Turkey, Captain Guy Puech and his company of French paratroopers begin a month of Arctic warfare exercises at the former airfield, now a Swedish army training centre, under the command of Captain Maria-Pia Tedelius. Then a notebook that had belonged to Blumfors is discovered and it contains a startling revelation: a French pilot, Joseph Vivarès, was murdered at the airfield. As Maria-Pia and Guy attempt to solve the mystery of Vivarès’s death, the revelations they discover along the way will alter both their understanding of history and their personal relationship.
A gripping story of heroism and espionage, love and betrayal. A cast of characters by turns hateful and deeply compelling, inhabiting a rich and vibrant world. Tundra Airport shows Olivier Truc at the height of his craft, once again.
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