Betrayal
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Caught between empires, a young woman risks her life for Ireland
Mary Ellen Fraser speeds down the lonely country road, aware that no matter how fast she drives, she cannot outrun the secret in her heart. In the POW camps of Northern Ireland, this doctor’s wife found a lover—a handsome German officer who begged her to smuggle a letter to his cousin. But the cousin is a lie, and the note is really an encoded message for Admiral Dönitz, high commander of the Nazi fleet. Not only has Mary betrayed her husband, she has betrayed Britain, as well.
When she discovers the consequences of her unwitting bit of espionage, Mary does everything she can to undo the damage. Trapped between Britain, Germany, and the merciless Irish Republican Army, Mary is the only person who can keep the Nazis from landing in Ireland.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
An overly melodramatic setup mars this tepid WWII thriller from Janes, who has done excellent work in his St. Cyr/Kohler series (Carnival, etc.). In September 1941, Mary Ellen Fraser is caught between the "British, the Reich and the IRA" in Northern Ireland. Mary has become intimately involved with Erich Kramer, a captured German U-boat captain held at a POW camp where her husband works as a doctor. When she agrees to deliver a letter from Erich to a cousin of his in Dublin, she becomes an unwitting tool of the enemy. Meanwhile, IRA terrorist bombings continue, and Winston Churchill worries that the Nazis and the Irish revolutionaries are plotting to do "something" in Northern Ireland. The plot twists lead up to an ending that stretches plausibility. If Janes wants readers to become truly engaged with Mary, he needs to give his lead more psychological depth.
