Agent in Peril (The Wolf Pack Spies, 2)
Poznań, 1938. Polish electronics professor Roman Loszynski is met at the airfield by Major Szymański and General Brygady Wiśniewski, whom he’d just heard describe him as ‘one of them’. The Polish air force men are meeting with the general to outline the advantages of the new bomber PZL.37.
Berlin, 1943. On the train, Sophia von Naundorf is questioned by the Gestapo. She says she is on ‘confidential’ SS business. Actually, she is going to Zürich to retrieve the money and jewels her husband Karl-Heinrich stole from Jews. Sophia had been operating as a British agent for two and a half years, and she wants to bring her husband to justice. Agent Jack Miller waits for her. Loszynski and his family are in hiding in the Warsaw ghetto; he has safeguarded the equipment and blueprints for the PZL.37. He tells the head of the Jewish Fighting Organisation, codenamed Sowa, about PZL.37. The various agents begin a tense race, criss-crossing Europe to safeguard Loszynski’s invention. What scary work it was being a secret agent during World War Two!
This is a thriller with an exciting plot of cloak-and-dagger espionage and secret missions, passwords, and disguises. If this story has to have a protagonist, it can only be Loszynski, yet he disappears for most of the chapters. The only other person to identify with is Sophia, mainly because she’s a woman with a difficult job to do (turn in her husband). Jack plays a major role in the espionage. At times we even follow the Germans’ point of view. There’s too much going on and too many players—a helpful list is included at the front—to have time for any character development. It is very realistic and supposedly mirrors real historical events. This is Book Two in the Wolf Pack Spies series.
