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Midnight in Berlin: A Novel
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Berlin in the spring of 1939. Hitler is preparing for war. Colonel Noel Macrae, a British diplomat, plans the ultimate sacrifice to stop him. The West's appeasement policies have failed. There is only one alternative: assassination. The Gestapo, aware of Macrae's hostility, seeks to compromise him in their infamous brothel. There Macrae meets and falls in love with Sara, a Jewish woman blackmailed into becoming a Nazi courtesan.
Macrae finds himself trapped between the blind policies of his government and the dark world of betrayal and deception in Berlin. As he seeks to save the woman he loves from the brutality of the Gestapo, he defies his government and plans direct action to avert what he knows will be a global war.
Inspired by true events and characters, James MacManus's Midnight in Berlin is a passionate story that will leave you in awe of the human capacity for courage, sacrifice, and love set against a world on the brink of war.

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Macrae finds himself trapped between the blind policies of his government and the dark world of betrayal and deception in Berlin. As he seeks to save the woman he loves from the brutality of the Gestapo, he defies his government and plans direct action to avert what he knows will be a global war.
Inspired by true events and characters, James MacManus's Midnight in Berlin is a passionate story that will leave you in awe of the human capacity for courage, sacrifice, and love set against a world on the brink of war.

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      • content: "James MacManus has pulled off a dazzling feat of time travel. In the authentic voice of a journalist who has seen war, he brings London under the Blitz stunningly to life - the stench of the burning city, the ear-splitting blasts of falling bombs, the heart-stopping fear, the reckless pursuit of sex and whiskey and fleeting escape. Sleep in Peace Tonight is a riveting story of men and women struggling to save civilization and preserve their own humanity in the face of insurmountable odds."
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        In 1938, British army Col. Noel Macrae, a decorated World War I veteran, takes on an assignment as military attache to the Berlin embassy. As Hitler annexes Austria and then gobbles up Czechoslovakia, Macrae travels the embassy cocktail circuit, picking up bits from the shadows where double agents lurk. From one well-placed source, an old-family Prussian officer, Macrae learns the German High Command opposes Hitler's reckless expansionism. There are rumblings that a coup d'etat could depose Hitler if France and England stand firm. Macrae believes the information accurate and argues that mad Hitler must see "the mailed fist." That makes him an outlier among British diplomats and politicians supporting appeasement, especially the ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, an avid supporter of Chamberlain's policies. There's a second, equally powerful, plotline. The beautiful young Sara Sternsheins, who curses herself as "a Jewish whore in a Nazi bordello," has prostituted herself to keep her jailed twin brother from execution. She's become the particular target of abuse by SS leader Reinhard Heydrich, a man of "pure and unadulterated" evil, "as cold as a mountain stream." With his own marriage imploding, it's no surprise Macrae turns to Sara. Taking in the Brandenburg Gate, classy apartments along the Wilhelmstrasse, and covert strolls through the Tiergarten, MacManus (Sleep in Peace Tonight, 2014, etc.) sets the "dark soul" of Nazi Berlin as his backdrop, using historical characters like the brilliant historian William Shirer and the flamboyant Hermann Goring to strengthen his fictional cast--Macrae, Sara, and the brilliant secret service agent Roger Halliday, a "shambolic wreck" whose vulgarity hides a cool, cutting intellect. It's worth noting, too, that MacManus gives ample space to dissecting how underlying European anti-Semitism left the Jewish question to be answered in concentration camps. Detailed yet quick-moving, MacManus' tense, morally charged narrative ends with a possible sequel in sight.

        COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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Macrae finds himself trapped between the blind policies of his government and the dark world of betrayal and deception in Berlin. As he seeks to save the woman he loves from the brutality of the Gestapo, he defies his government and plans direct action to avert what he knows will be a global war.
Inspired by true events and characters, James MacManus's Midnight in Berlin is a passionate story that will leave you in awe of the human capacity for courage, sacrifice, and love set against a world on the brink of war.

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