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    The Darkest Hour: A Novel

    By Tony Schumacher

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    A crackling, highly imaginative thriller debut in the vein of W.E.B. Griffin and Philip Kerr, set in German-occupied London at the close of World War II, in which a hardened British detective jeopardizes his own life to save an innocent soul and achieve the impossible—redemption.

    London, 1946. The Nazis have conquered the British, and now occupy Great Britain, using brutality and fear to control its citizens. John Henry Rossett, a decorated British war hero and former police sergeant, has been reassigned to the Office of Jewish Affairs. He now answers to the SS, one of the most powerful and terrifying organizations in the Third Reich.

    Rossett is a man accustomed to obeying commands, but he’s now assigned a job he did not ask for—and cannot refuse: rounding up Jews for deportation, including men and women he’s known his whole life. But they are not the only victims, for the war took Rossett’s wife and son, and shattered his own humanity.

    Then he finds Jacob, a young Jewish child, hiding in an abandoned building, who touches something in Rossett that he thought was long dead.

    Determined to save the innocent boy, Rossett takes him on the run, with the Nazis in pursuit. But they are not the only hunters following his trail. The Royalist Resistance and the Communists want him, too. Each faction has its own agenda, and Rossett will soon learn that none of them can be trusted . . . and all of them are deadly. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 23, 2014
    ISBN9780062339386
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    The Darkest Hour: A Novel
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    Tony Schumacher

    Tony Schumacher is a native of Liverpool, England. He is the author of The Darkest Hour and The British Lion, and was a finalist for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2016. He has written for The Guardian and the Huffington Post, and he is a regular contributor to BBC Radio and London's LBC Radio. He has been a policeman, stand-up comedian, bouncer, jeweler, taxi driver, perfume salesman, actor, and garbage collector, among others. He currently lives outside Liverpool.

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    • 3/5
      Well written, with an engaging plot, this novel should rate five stars, had the author bothered with basic research.

      If you are going to write an alternative history, you should know something about history. The author clearly doesn't grasp the very real differences between the German Heer and the SS, nor the three types of SS. Nor the relationship within the German power structure between the SS and Gestapo. He is wholly ignorant of ranks and rank structures, having a low-ranking SS officer being extremely disrespectful to a flag-rank Poletzi officer (who do not carry and 'flash' badges ala Hollywood).

      His interactions between the various Nazi officials are purely the stuff of Hollywood.

      He even failed on the details of British uniforms.

      Overall, promising, but fell far shot of its potential.
    • 3/5
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    • 5/5
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