the collaborator  <p><strong>an enthralling story of heroism, passion, and betrayal based on astonishing true events set in the darkest days of world war ii in budapest. </strong>for readers of <em>the tattooist of auschwitz</em>, <em>the alice network </em>and <em>my name is eva</em>.</p><br /> <p>budapest, 1944: the germans have invaded. jewish journalist miklos nagy risks his life and confronts the dreaded adolf eichmann in an attempt save thousands of hungarian jews from the death camps. but no one could have foreseen the consequences...</p><p>sydney, 2005: annika barnett sets out on a journey that takes her to budapest and tel aviv to discover the truth about the mysterious man who rescued her grandmother in 1944. </p><p>by the time her odyssey is over, history has been turned on its head, past and present collide, and the secret that has poisoned the lives of three generations is finally revealed in a shocking climax that holds the key to their redemption.</p><p>from <em>usa today </em>bestselling author diane armstrong come a story of an act of heroism, the taint of collaboration, a doomed love affair, and an australian woman who travels across the world to discover the truth... </p>