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 Carr?. 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 novels?now available as ebooks. Paris, 1945. G?nter 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 Mai?one 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?.