TRAITORS ODYSSEY

A delicious gossipy and thoroughly engaging romp heartily recommended Tim Tate author of Hitler s British Traitors and The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold A captivating page turner Helen Fry author of Women in IntelligenceAmbassador s daughter Nazi love interest Soviet spy FBI most wanted Accompanying her parents to Berlin in the 1930s Martha Dodd knew almost nothing about Adolf Hitler or the Nazis Yet almost overnight she stepped into the spotlight and found herself at the over heated centre of Hitler s New Germany befriending and dating several high ranking Nazis including the head of the Gestapo An affair with a dashing Russian diplomat saw her recruited as a spy and so began a long and tumultuous career in both Berlin and America including attempts to infiltrate First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt s inner circle and playing a key role in Henry Wallace s disastrous 1948 presidential campaign Betrayed by a Hollywood hustler turned double agent Martha spent years under deep FBI surveillance escaping twice and went to ground in Cold War Prague sad lonely rich and bored living out her final decades in a Communist Sunset Boulevard Largely forgotten Martha Dodd began to emerge as an iconic historical figure in the early 2000s