Traitor’s Gate

by Michael Ridpath Book 1 in the Traitors series.

First published 2013

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3.9(794)

Berlin, 1938. Englishman Conrad de Lancey, already hardened by the Spanish Civil War, enters a Germany transformed by the Nazi regime. After Gestapo arrest and rescue by his German Oxford friend Theo von Hertenberg, Conrad is drawn into contacts between German opponents of Hitler and British officials.

The novel builds its suspense around the real September 1938 conspiracy to remove Hitler if the Sudeten crisis led to war, while the Munich crisis narrows the conspirators’ options. Historical intelligence and political figures intersect with the fictional protagonists as loyalty, patriotism and opposition to dictatorship become increasingly difficult to separate.

Historical Periods

Munich Agreement1938

Genres

Court & Political Fiction Espionage Historical Thriller

Historical people

Adolf Hitler1889–1945 Reinhard Heydrich1904–1942 Heinrich Himmler1900–1945 Neville Chamberlain1869–1940 Wilhelm Canaris1887–1945 Frank Foley1884–1958 Hans Oster1887–1945