Sneaking into the town, Karl finds out that three officers - "The Three Musketeers" - plan to betray Vahlen to Hitler by giving him the general's personal diary. Some fear him more than they fear General Vahlen, myself among them." Wüstengeist, they call him, the Desert Ghost. Men say he's like the desert sand - he gets everywhere. "As usual, the Allies nip at our heels from the deep desert, but there is a new rumour, one of an allied sniper. Information collected by Brauer led to the Siwa Oasis in Western Egypt. After dispatching a group of Italian paratroopers that arrived inconveniently after freeing the prisoner, Karl provided overwatch to Brauer amid a storm against waves of German and Italian troops trying stop the breakout. Taking the cell key from the German commanding officer, Karl rescued Brauer, the informant. Penetrating the outer defence manned by Italian troops, including Elites, Karl infiltrates the fort. The fort was previously held by the British during Operation Compass, so the layout of its outer and inner defences were available for study therefore the fort, unassailable to an army, could be penetrated by a single man. The LRDG dropped Karl in front of Fort Rifugio, where the informant was being held. Hitchhiking with the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), Fairburne opens a path for them amid Flak 88 batteries in Halfaya Pass (called "Hellfire Pass" by the troops) in their search for the informant.Īs it happened, he had been compromised and captured before he could find out what Project Seuche was. The trail of orders found in the bodies of German and Italian officers hinted to a mysterious Project Seuche (literally meaning plague in German). Tobruk was lost but the British Naval Intelligence had noticed Karl's skills and recruited him as an agent to infiltrate the Axis-held oasis of Gaberoun to investigate the whereabouts of a British informant that was following the trail of General Franz Vahlen. In June 1942, Karl Fairburne was a volunteer sniper in the British Army defending Tobruk during the Battle of Gazala. Karl's exploits made him a legend among soldiers, and were instrumental in the Allied victory in the Second World War. Karl has been charged with various objectives, including: Assassination, reconnaissance and intelligence gathering, sabotage, search and rescue, and the recruitment/elimination of Nazi scientists. He was often sent as a solo infiltration unit, on some of the most top secret espionage missions during the second world War. Karl's skill as a sniper was unmatched, and he became a great asset to the allies, during the Second World War. He studied at West Point, shortly after America's entrance into World War II in December of 1941, where he became a qualified Sniper. He was the son of an British American ambassador to Germany before the war broke out, and was raised in Berlin. Very little is known about Karl's life prior to his military service.