From New York Times bestselling author William Martin comes a WWII
thriller as intense as The Day of the Jackal and as gripping as The
Eye of the Needle. In December '41, Martin takes us on the ultimate
manhunt, a desperate chase from Los Angeles to Washington, D. C., in the
first weeks of the Second World War.
On the day after Pearl Harbor, shocked Americans gather around their
radios to hear Franklin Roosevelt declare war. In Los Angeles, a German
agent named Martin Browning is planning to kill FDR on the night he
lights the National Christmas Tree. Who will stop him? Relentless FBI
Agent Frank Carter? Kevin Cusack, a Hollywood script reader who also
spies on the German Bund of Los Angeles, and becomes a suspect himself?
Or Vivian Hopewell, the aspiring actress who signs on to play Martin
Browning's wife and cannot help but fall in love with him?
The clock is ticking. The tracks are laid. The train of narrow escapes,
mistaken identities, and shocking deaths is right on schedule. It's a
thrilling ride that will sweep you from the back lots of Hollywood to
the speeding Super Chief to that solemn Christmas Eve, when twenty
thousand people gather on the South Lawn of the White House and the
lives of Franklin Roosevelt and his surprise guest, Winston Churchill,
hang in the balance.
"A remarkable story that will keep you reading late into the
night."--Catherine Coulter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of
Vortex
"Instantly cinematic and endlessly entertaining, December '41 is an
absolute page turner."--Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling
author of Her Perfect Life
