Book description
Germany 1941. Two British officers, Hugh Hartley and Malcolm Royce,
achieved what many believed to be impossible. They escaped from Oflag
IVC, better known as Colditz Castle. But as they are about to cross
the border into Switzerland, and within yards of reaching freedom,
Royce is shot. He begs Hartley to go on and save himself. Wracked with
guilt, Hartley leaves his friend behind.
London, 1973. Thirty years later and Hartley is now a senior MI6
officer. When a shadowy contact tips him off that Royce may still be
alive, and still being held in Colditz - now a lunatic asylum -
Hartley is desperate to discover what really happened to his friend.
He plans a perilous mission to break back into Colditz, but the truth
he will find there will be more shocking than he could possibly have imagined.
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.
