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Resistance #2: Magyar Massacre by Gregory St. Germain

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Resistance #2: Magyar Massacre (1982) by Gregory St. Germain   After much online research I have been unable to determine   whether Gregory St. Germain was a house name or not, though I suspect it was.   Regardless, that is the name given to the author of  Magyar Massacre , the second in the  Resistance  series, published in the early 80s by Signet. The hook here is that Phoenix, the Dirty Dozen-style team of multi-national soldiers, is operating against the Nazis throughout Europe in secret missions that pre-date America’s official involvement in World War II. Led by stalwart American Scott Gideon, Phoenix is tasked with getting into Nazi-occupied Hungary and eventually Yugoslavia in order to recover a Count’s stolen art treasure that will be used to further fuel the Nazi war machine’s onslaught through Europe. It’s a nonstop action romp with stereotypical characters who are best remembered by their nationalities than any memorable traits (American, Russian, Polish, Jewish, Irish, and