The Traitor: A Novel
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ISBN: 0743270150 / Publisher: Atria Books, August 2005
A tale inspired by the British Free Corps of World War II Nazi sympathizers finds secret agent John Lockhart captured by the Nazis during a Resistance mission to German-occupied Crete and forced to choose between saving his concentration camp-interred wife and committing an act of treason. Original. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.
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There was something powerful about it, something magnetic. He had witnessed the effect of such uniforms in the newsreels; now he was about to wear one. But this SS uniform -- the uniform proudly worn by so many maniacs and murderers -- bore a Union Jack...It was an insult to King and Country. In November 1943 the Nazis capture British secret agent John Lockhart while he is on a Resistance mission to German-occupied Crete. They give him a stark choice: betray his country or die. In a decision some might consider treason and moral folly, Lockhart acts out of love and strikes a bargain with his captors: in return for his wife, who is interned in a concentration camp, he will change sides. But he is stunned to learn that his mission is to lead the British Free Corps, a clandestine unit of the SS composed of British fascists and renegades culled from POW camps. Aware that he, like them, will be branded a traitor, Lockhart seeks to redeem himself by destroying a terrifying secret weapon that threatens to change the course of history.
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