The Forbidden Rescue Book Report

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“ The Forbidden Rescue: by William Newell is the third book to a series. Its been a year since John and Katie moved to a home in Scotland, and Johns Photography is starting to make money and Katie is working on her book. John get a job at Clydebank to take pictures of a bombing that happened many years ago. Katie decides to take a few days off of writing and asks to go with John and his assistant Tim and he says yes. As they get to the third location to take pictures they come across a memorial with names of about 500 people that were killed during the clydebank Blitz. On the list John spots his uncles name who was killed in the bombing. As they are standing there they start to feel tired and soon everything goes black. When they wake up they

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