THE TRAITORS CIRCLE

An astonishing true story of courage love and betrayal told with the verve of a thriller Freedland is a master MICK HERRON This remarkable book reads like a novel The narrative style is gripping the morality searing This is how the best history books will be written in the future ANDREW ROBERTS The Traitors Circle rivals Freedland s superb The Escape Artist Totally gripping and timely JONATHAN DIMBLEBY Haunting and heart poundingly suspenseful Freedland s powerful story telling has intense resonance in today s darkening world SINCLAIR MCKAY As tense as a thriller yet perceptive thoughtful and thoroughly researched KATJA HOYER When the whole world is lying someone must tell the truth Berlin 1943 A group of high society anti Nazi dissenters meet for a tea party one late summer afternoon They do not know that sitting around the table is someone poised to betray them all to the Gestapo revealing their secret to the Nazis most ruthless detective They form a circle of unlikely rebels drawn from the German elite two countesses a diplomat an intelligence officer an ambassador s widow and a pioneering headmistress Meeting in the shadows rescuing Jews or plotting for a future Germany freed from the Führer s rule what