Book description
Great Britain, 1937:
Edward VIII will not abdicate. He and his new bride, Wallis Simpson,
are preparing for their coronation.
Winston Churchill is a prisoner on the Isle of Man.
The Prime Minister, Oswald Mosley consults the new Chancellor of
Germany, and his close ally, Adolf Hitler on a more 'permanent'
solution to the 'Jewish problem'.
The secret police have Britain in an iron grip.
But one man, James Armstrong , a hero of the Great War, is
organising the resistance against the government . While 'the leader'
is determined to see him hang, Armstrong, constantly on the run, is
every bit as clever and resolute as his enemy.
In the tradition of Robert Harris's Fatherland, Guy Walters
has writen a compelling, page-turning what-if thriller that imagines a
nightmare vision of a Britain that could have been, if history had
gone the other way.
Guy Walters
is the author of two history books on the Second World War,
Hunting
Evil
and
Berlin Games
. He is also the author of four thrillers set in the same period:
The
Leader, The Traitor, The Occupation
and
The Colditz Legacy
. A former
Times
journalist he writes widely on historical topics for the national press.
He lives in Wiltshire with his wife, the author Annabel Venning, and
their two children.
