Synopsis

Part World War II spy thriller, part romance, and part tale of buried family secrets,The Serpent Beareris perfect for fans of Kelly RimmersThe German Wifeand Kate QuinnsThe Alice Network.A suspenseful tale stretching from Spain to Hollywood, from a small Jewish community in South Carolina to a crumbling hacienda in the Yucatan,The Serpent Bearercarries readers into the lives of a glamorous British aristocrat, a Jewish gambler, and a beautiful Hollywood screenwriterall swept up by dangerous political currents during WWII. Solly Meisner, a Spanish Civil War veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, has barely settled in after his return home when he discovers powerful Nazi sympathizers are working behind the scenes in his new hometown of Pennington, South Carolina. Determined to stop them, he signs on with the Coordinating Office of Information (COI), a newly formed US spy agency. His first assignment: travel to the Yucatan and infiltrate a group of German spies and collaboratorsincluding Estelle, a beautiful British woman he fell in love with in Spain, and whom he fears may have betrayed him. In the Yucatan Solly encounters a band of European exiles, not all of them who they claim to be. With his contacts dropping like flies, danger lurks at every turn. But with the Nazis only a few hundred miles from the US coast and making plans for an invasion, there is no time to lose, and no one Solly trusts to track them down and stop them but himself. If he fails, the world he once knew will be gone foreverand the people he loves with it.

About The Author

Jane Rosenthalstudied creative writing at San Francisco State University. She worked for NPR and California Public Radio before teaching English in public high schools in Oakland, California. She grew up Jewish and southern in Charlotte, North Carolina, and now resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband, astrophysicist David Hollenbach.

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