The Collaborators (Isis Cassettes Ser.)

By: Reginald Hill

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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 Carré&” (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 novels—now available as ebooks (Val McDermid). Paris, 1945. Günter 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&” (Kirkus Reviews).