The OAS felt that President Charles de Gaulle betrayed the Army in 1960 by submitting to the demands of the Algerian resistance, and the organisation has been the biggest single threat to the stability of France ever since. The OAS is the Secret Army Organisation, a real-life terrorist group operating in 1960s France (despite sounding like something from The Man from UNCLE). Has it aged well, or have I outgrown it? It was time to find out… This is a book I really rated when I was a teenager, and I have always thought it was the gold standard for thrillers. First published in the UK by Hutchinson, 1971
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