The German Wife

The author of The Warsaw Orphan, a New York Times bestseller book, makes a triumphant comeback with a suspenseful book based on the actual account of Operation, a contentious covert US intelligence initiative that hired former Nazis during World War II.

Germany in 1930 —The aspirations of the radical political party's recently elected chancellor help Sofie von Meyer Rhodes's professor husband as the party rides a wave of revolution to power. Despite the fact that Jürgen and Sofie do not agree with the social ideologies that are becoming more and more common in Hitler's Germany, Jürgen's position and its expanding rocket program turn around their declining circumstances. However, as Sofie looks on helplessly, her beloved Berlin starts to change, making her question what moral compromises they will have to make in order to ensure the safety of their little family and what their neutrality would cost them.

Twenty years later, Jürgen is one of many German scientists who are brought to America to work on its nascent space program after receiving pardons for their involvement in the war. For Sofie, this is her opportunity to make a new beginning in her chosen nation and cast aside the ghosts that have followed her over the water. However, she hasn't found her neighbors to be as understanding or kind as she had thought. Idle chatter evolves to seething wrath as sensational allegations about the Rhodes family's alleged ties to Hitler's dictatorship proliferate, and the next act of violence will destroy Sofie's family and town before the truth is eventually exposed.