Playing Rudolf Hess

From the bestselling author of An Absolute Secret, Shipwrecked Lives, Remembrance Man, and White Slaves comes this brilliantly imagined novel about one of the greatest mysteries of the Second World War. After parachuting into Scotland in 1941, the German Reichsminister Rudolf Hess was revealed to be an imposter. A team of MI5 intelligence officers led by Paul Cummings and his German wife Claudia, were sent to Camp Z to investigate the Hess double. The team soon started to uncover the imposter’s secrets, including the shadowy Herr Oberst and his training by the SS. But the British government decided to bury the truth with the Official Secrets Act, and it was only in 1973 that a British doctor confirmed the fraud during a medical examination in Berlin.

An imposter and espionage thriller involving MI5, German spies, and the Nuremberg trials.