Shadows on St. Germain
by Nancy Bowie
Category: Fiction

Following an ill-advised raid on the Normandy coast, severely wounded Canadian Ian Frasier is rescued by partisan Jacqueline Tousignant and is given the identity of her dead husband. Her home, the village of St. Germain, is teeming with intrigue between local resistance and competing factions of SS and members of Abwehr. The community harbors a second surviving Ranger. Rumors are that he was assigned to convince a leading German scientist, Dr. Bauer, to defect to England. The Ranger is given papers identifying him as one of a number of Frenchmen shipped home from Germany to repair damage caused by the Canadians. The story unfolds with Ian, as Andre Tousignant, and the Ranger, interacting with the Germans in their separate ways. The Ranger, Branch Compton, is introduced to the Compte and the flamboyant American heiress, Comptesse de Fleury, and is entertained at their Chateau along with German officers. A member of Canarisas Abwehr and a member or Himmleras SS are assigned to find out why the raid was so successful. It is thought that there might be a traitor in the Germansa midst.