| In the thrilling tradition of such national best-sellers as SS-GB, FATHERLAND, and LOS ALAMOS, comes a first novel wherein history’s path has taken a different turn.... A quarter of a century has passed since Nazi Germany emerged victorious in Europe and settled into a Cold War with America and Great Britain, and four years since Simon Quinn walked away from a brilliant career at the Berlin station of MI-6, the British foreign intelligence service, intending never to look back. But now Adolf Hitler has suddenly died at the age of eighty-two and, amidst the ensuing political turmoil in Germany surrounding the disputed Nazi succession, MI-6’s chief blackmails Quinn into returning to Berlin once more. His mission: to locate Richard Garner, a highly placed official at the British embassy who has suddenly disappeared and is suspected of defecting. To find Garner, Quinn must enlist the aid of Ellie Voss, a young SS clerical worker who opposes the brutal repression of the Nazi regime but still considers herself a German patriot, unwilling to betray her country to the British or Americans, even for the man she is quickly coming to love. But when Quinn and Ellie discover that Garner has gone into hiding not to defect to the Germans, but rather to prevent a radical shift in world power, everything changes for them. The truth behind Garner’s disappearance will force Simon Quinn to reevaluate where his most basic loyalties lie and to confront a part of himself that he has kept hidden since the day he ran away from home to join the army: that he was born not in England, but in Germany, though his family emigrated from the Reich shortly after Hitler took power—because they were Jewish. Now this British spy must choose sides, not only between the British who are blackmailing him and those who would change history, but between the brutal Nazi leaders who are battling for succession: Reinhard Heydrich, the key architect of the Final Solution, and Heinrich Himmler, chief of the SS and Gestapo. For Simon Quinn, British spy and Jew, this is a choice that will test even a traitor’s loyalty. |
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