The secret of Spandau
By: Peter Lovesey
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781847517098
Subjects: Journalists; World War, 1939-1945; Political prisoners; Imprisonment; Nazis; Fiction
Description: Rudolf Hess was the most closely guarded prisoner in the world. Forty-five years after his capture in Scotland on a supposed peace mission he was still in Spandau Prison. Why was it necessary to keep him there so long? He was a Nazi -- but one with a damaging tale to tell. If anyone can reach him it is Berlin correspondent Red Goodbody, known for his foolhardiness, but also for his daring and panache. The fear is that the stability of Western Europe may be undermined by what Hess can reveal; and so both the KGB and MI5 move into action to protect the extraordinary secret of Spandau.
Notes: Oriignally published in Great Britain in 1986 by Michael Joseph under the pseudonym Peter Lear.