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Inspired by a true story the New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan returns with an unputdownable novel of a community torn apart when a former Nazi family moves into town to work on NASA's space program Berlin 1934 Ilse Meyer is the aristocratic wife of a scientist whose post-WWI fortunes change for the better when her husband Jurgen is recruited for Hitler's new rocket project. But too late they realize the Nazis' plans to weaponize Jurgen's technology as they begin to wage war against the rest of Europe. Alabama 1949 Jurgen is one of hundreds of Nazi scientists offered pardons and taken to the US to work for the CIA's fledgling space program. Ilse now the mother of four misses Germany terribly and struggles to fit in among the other NASA wives. In a moment of loneliness she confesses to a neighbour Rachel Carlson about Jurgen's membership in the SS. But she has trusted the wrong person. When the scandalous news about the Meyer family's affiliation with the Nazi party spreads idle gossip turns to bitter rage and the act of violence that results will tear apart a community and a family before the truth is finally revealed - but is it murder revenge or justice?
Kelly Rimmer
Hachette
Paperback
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