Espionage adventure NOVEL...a love story set in England, Germany and Scandinavia during WW-II.
A mother's love drives her to find the daughter she's only seen for minutes, at birth.
Now the SS want to send the three year old child to the concentration camps.
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Specs:
5-1/2" wide x 8-1/2" tall 5-1/2 wide x 1" thick
612 pages PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WW-II
Scandinavian espionage is a unique subject for this adventurous love
story. Alex, a Swedish-American joins the RAF to fight in the
Battle of Britain. But months of air combat leave him a
hero near emotional collapse. British High Command and a
princess from the exiled Norwegian Crown recruit him in an
under cover plot to pose as a neutral Swedish airline pilot,
able to circulate freely throughout Europe.
A spy in Norway working with Himmler's Lebensborn program, Greta's emotional struggle between duty and conscience plagues Greta's every mission in wartime Scandinavia and Europe. Witnessing the horror of the Third Reich’s programs toward young women and the Allies methodical devastation of her beloved Germany from the air, makes her vulnerable. By 1939 Alex is on a critical spy assignment and finally feeling he can hold his own again. The last thing he needs is to fall in love with a Nazi spy. In Germany's Lebensborn program Greta has previously had a child by an SS officer who is later executed when his Jewish heritage is discovered. The child had been immediately adopted to an unknown German family, as part of Lebensborn. Having discovered and killed the father, the SS now want the child eradicated. Learning her daughter will be destined for the death camps, Greta abandons her new love Alex and hopefully ahead of the SS, rushes to Germany to locate her daughter's adoptive family, planning to steal the child. As Alex’s bomber squadron climbs over the English Channel...tonight’s target, Cologne, in the cockpit, Alex opens Greta’s last letter and learns she has gone to Cologne to search Lebensborn records that might yield her child’s adopted parents. Weeks after the bombing, Alex is distraught, hearing nothing from Greta for weeks. Fearing her injured or worse, dead, Alex steals into Germany, hoping to find Greta and her child, planning to bring them out alive. Alex and Greta miss meeting by only days. Unable to find Greta, Alex accidentally finds the child, who is living with grandparents of the adoptive couple who have been killed in the Allied raids. Alex is quickly overwhelmed by the warmth of the local German civilians. Learning of his mission, they quickly overcome his reluctance and urge him to carry the child back to hiding in neutral Sweden. Beginning a journey in an ancient Mercedes, two old German civilian bureaucrats, the child and Alex deceive their way north, through Germany to the north of Denmark where they finally bribe a Norwegian smuggler captain to carry Alex and the child across to Sweden. Arriving at the rendezvous point in a blizzard, they discover the Norwegian has only a small sailboat. Fearing for their lives in the mounting storm, they reluctantly boarvd a small dinghy and vanish into the darkness. The adventure begins, with the Gestapo close behind. The Characters:
Robert Johnson (Alex)---Swedish-American joins the RAF to fight in the Battle of Britain Greta Stopff---Nazi, bears the Lebensborn child Katrina Katrina---Three year old, adopted Lebensborn child (Princess) Birgitta---Exiled Norwegian Princess, with British Intelligence. Clyde Whitwell---Robert's "runner" in British Intelligence Johan---Katrina's half-Jewish father, executed on the Russian front. The Mayor---German bureaucrat helps with escape The Constable---German policeman helps with escape The Franks---Adoptive German grandparents of Katrina sending her to safety. Norwegian Smuggler---Promises to smuggle them safely to Sweden German Battleship Captain---Offers Christmas Eve dinner aboard ship to Alex and the child ...the beginning... Robert Johnson is an American whose mother is of Swedish descent. When his father dies Robert's brought up by his uncle Jesse, who owns a one-plane, crop-dusting service in Southern Missouri in the USA. WW-II is heating up in 1939 and Robert is burning to go, though America is still two years away from Pearl Harbor and official entrance into the war. © 2007 Smultron
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