"A literary tour de force on par with Mark Sullivan's Beneath a
Scarlet Sky." --Samuel Marquis
In the spring of 1944, I realized that I was not going to survive the
war...
Shtefan Brandt, adjutant to a colonel of the Waffen SS, has made it
through the war so far in spite of his commander's habit of bringing his
staff into combat, and a pair of secrets that are far more dangerous
than the battlefield. Shtefan is a Mischling and one of the thousands of
German citizens of Jewish descent who have avoided the death camps by
concealing themselves in the ranks of the German army. And he is in love
with Gabrielle Belmont, the colonel's French mistress. Either of those
facts could soon mean his end, were Colonel Erich Himmel to notice.
Colonel Himmel has other concerns, however. He can see the war's end on
the horizon and recognizes that he is not on the winning side, no matter
what the reports from Hitler's generals may say. So he has taken matters
into his own hands, hatching a plot to escape Europe. To fund his new
life, he plans to steal a fortune from the encroaching Allies. A fortune
that Shtefan, in turn, plans to steal from him...
Atmospheric and intense, The Soul of a Thief captures the turbulent
emotional rush of those caught behind the lines of occupied France,
where one false step could spell death, and every day brings a new
struggle to survive.
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