Berlin, 1938: It's the height of summer, and Germany is on the brink of war. When fledgling reporter Georgie Young is posted to Berlin, alongside fellow Londoner Max Spender, she knows they are entering the eye of the storm.
Arriving to a city swathed in red flags and crawling with Nazis, Georgie feels helpless, witnessing innocent people being torn from their homes. As tensions rise, she realises she and Max have to act - even if it means putting their lives on the line.
But when she digs deeper, Georgie begins to uncover the unspeakable truth about Hitler's Germany - and the pair are pulled into a world darker than she could ever have imagined...
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Leaving the clang of cell doors behind him and the ebbing sounds of agony within, Major Hugo Shenk holstered his pistol and climbed the stairs from the bloom of the basement with renewed energy. PROLOGUE
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(@AvonBooksUK, 29 October 2020, 400 pages, ebook, copy from the publisher via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I've read and enjoyed other books by the author and was looking forward to this. Historical fiction has become one of my go-to genre's this year, so I was looking forward to adding another title to my list. I've read a lot of fiction set during WW2, but this is just before the war actually starts so offers a slightly different perspective. The book uses two very different POV's, Georgie a journalist sent to Berlin as a foreign correspondent and Rubin, a Jewish man who lives in Berlin and becomes her driver. I liked the different takes on the book both POV's offered and the way the stories come together. The story does take a while to get going but I enjoyed the ride nevertheless.
