The Secret of Spandau

by Peter Lovesey

Overview

Rudolf Hess was the most closely guarded prisoner in the world. Forty-five years after his capture in Scotland on a supposed peace mission he was still in Spandau Prison. Why was it necessary to keep him there so long? He was a Nazi — but one with a damaging tale to tell.

If anyone can reach him it is Berlin correspondent Red Goodbody, known for his foolhardiness, but also for his daring and panache. The fear is that the stability of Western Europe may be undermined by what Hess can reveal; and so both the KGB and MI5 move into action to protect the extraordinary secret of Spandau.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847517098
Publisher:	Severn House Publishers
Publication date:	10/31/2017
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Peter Lovesey's first novel WOBBLE TO DEATH introduced the redoubtable Victorian policemen, Cribb and Thackeray. He won the Gold Dagger Award with THE FALSE INSPECTOR DEW and in 2000 joined the elite group of people awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award.

Editorial Reviews

05/16/2016
At the start of Lovesey’s gripping thriller, first published in 1986 under his Peter Lear alias, Rudolf Hess, the Deputy Führer of the Third Reich, parachutes into Scotland on a one-man peace mission on May 10, 1941. Flash forward to 1984, a few months after Hess turns 90 in West Berlin’s Spandau Prison, where he’s been serving a life sentence for war crimes since 1947. A team of British journalists are looking into the truth behind his defection; their editor believes that their own government may have hidden reasons for insisting on Hess’s continued incarceration. The reporters, including deputy sports editor Dick Garrick, get wind of a scandal that would totally revise public perceptions of Great Britain’s posture during WWII—that British officials conducted secret peace initiatives with the Nazis early in the war. Garrick and the others pursue this theory at their peril. Lovesey (Another One Goes Tonight and 15 other Peter Diamond mysteries) does a good job suspending disbelief while he keeps the pages turning. Agent: Jane Gelfman, Gelfman Schneider. (July)

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