Collaborators

Collaborators Synopsis

Set in Nazi-occupied France, this World War II novel of intrigue by the author of the Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries ';call[s] to mind John le Carre' (Publishers Weekly). Best known for his gritty Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill proves to be ';the finest male English contemporary crime writer' of stand-alone novelsnow available as ebooks (Val McDermid). Paris, 1945. Gunter Mai is a compassionate lieutenant with German intelligence, tasked with combing the city for collaborators. He understands the motives for their betrayal of country: greed, desperation, and fear. Janine Simonian is the wife of a Jewish member of the Resistance, virulently anti-Nazi and, at first, a most unlikely recruit for supplying information to the Abwehr. Until the Gestapo's reign of terror escalates and Janine's children are carted off to a pogrom. With Auschwitz only a heartbeat away, Janine strikes a bargain with Maione that will have irreversible consequences for the husband she betrays, for Mai, and for Janine herself. Within the context of a gripping historical thriller, Reginald Hill delivers ';a moving, richly textured account of an inhuman military occupation and the all-too-human loyalties it spawns' (Kirkus Reviews).

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