December '41

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From New York Times bestselling author William Martin comes a WWII thriller as intense as The Day of the Jackal and as gripping as The Eye of the Needle. Set in December '41, the story unfolds during the early weeks of the Second World War, following a desperate chase from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. Just after Pearl Harbor, Americans tune in to hear Franklin Roosevelt declare war. In Los Angeles, German agent Martin Browning plots to assassinate FDR on the night of the National Christmas Tree lighting. Who will thwart his plan? Relentless FBI Agent Frank Carter? Kevin Cusack, a Hollywood script reader and spy on the German Bund, who finds himself a suspect? Or Vivian Hopewell, an aspiring actress who becomes entangled with Browning while playing his wife and falls for him? The clock is ticking as a series of narrow escapes, mistaken identities, and shocking deaths unfold. The tension builds from Hollywood's back lots to the speeding Super Chief, culminating on Christmas Eve when twenty thousand gather on the White House lawn, with the lives of FDR and his surprise guest, Winston Churchill, hanging in the balance. “A remarkable story that will keep you reading late into the night.”--Catherine Coulter, #1 New York Times bestselling author. “Instantly cinematic and endlessly entertaining, this is an absolute page turner.”--Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author.