The new blockbuster thriller from Graham Hurley set against the final
stages of the Second World War. Confidant of Goebbels. Instrument of
Stalin. What's the worst that could happen? January 1945. Wherever you
look on the map, the Thousand Year Reich is shrinking. Even Goebbels has
run out of lies to sweeten the reckoning to come. An Allied victory is
inevitable, but who will reap the spoils of war? Two years ago, Werner
Nehmann's war came to an abrupt end in Stalingrad. With the city in
ruins, the remains of General Paulus' Sixth Army surrendered to the
Soviets, and Nehmann was taken captive. But now he's riding on the back
of one of Marshal Zhukov's T-34 tanks, heading home with a message for
the man who consigned him to the Stalingrad Cauldron. With the Red Army
about to fall on Berlin, Stalin fears his sometime allies are conspiring
to deny him his prize. He needs to speak to Goebbels - and who better to
broker the contact than Nehmann, Goebbels' one-time confidant? Having
swapped the ruins of Stalingrad for the wreckage of Berlin, the
influence of Goebbels for the machinations of Stalin, and Gulag rags for
a Red Army uniform, Nehmann's war has taken a turn for the worse.
