Whatever the Cost
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Publisher Description
Counter-intelligence agent Jacob Welker is on a special mission to find a group of scientists who could change the course of World War II in this smartly written historical espionage thriller.
September 1939. Germany has declared war on Poland, and in German Pomerania, Professor Josef Brun is on the run from the SS, carrying secret documents that could change the course of the war. If he can make it to France or Britain. If he can survive . . .
In America, counter-intelligence agent Captain Jacob Welker is handed a special assignment from President Roosevelt. Einstein believes the Nazis are aware of a new super weapon made possible by advances in atomic science, and only a small group of scientists can stop them winning the race to develop it. Enlisting the help of his British friends, Lord Geoffrey and Patricia Saboy, Welker must find the scientists and get them out of Germany from under the Nazi’s noses. As a dangerous new world of physics gathers pace, can Welker prevent the war taking a catastrophic new turn?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It's August 1939 in Edgar finalist Kurland's suspenseful sequel to 2020's The Bells of Hell, and Winston Churchill meets with Lord Geoffrey Saboy to discuss the imminent war with Germany. Geoffrey goes to Paris as a cultural attaché with his wife, Lady Patricia, though their real work is spying for the British government. Their happy marriage of convenience—Saboy is gay, and Patricia, who has "large and varied sexual appetites," pursues her own affairs—adds spice to the plot. In Germany, physics professor Josef Brun is on the run from the Nazis, guarding documents relating to secret experiments with radioactivity. In the U.S., President Roosevelt receives a letter from Albert Einstein alerting him to the possibility of making a superweapon with uranium ore. FDR sends his top spy, Office of Special Intelligence agent Jacob Welker, to Europe to spirit away a group of scientists and bring them to America. Kurland expertly weaves Saboy's sometimes madcap antics into Welker's serious work without betraying the rules of a good espionage novel. Readers will eagerly await the next in the series.
