and Germany are making in each other's countries will keep the peace between them even after the Nazis get the atomic bomb. For example, Joseph Kennedy, the American ambassador to Occupied Great Britain, believes that the business investments that the U.S. Set in 1946, Schumacher's sequel to 2014's The Darkest Hour, in which the Germans have won WWII, does not improve on its predecessor, though it does have a few imaginative flashes. Though she knows it could end any hope of freedom in Europe and maybe even the world, Ruth must finish the project-if she, too, wants to survive. Spared from death because of her intellect and expertise, she is forced to work on developing the atom bomb for Germany. Caught between the Nazi SS, the violent British resistance, and Americans with very uncertain loyalties, Rossett must secretly make his way out of London and find Ruth Hartz, a Jewish scientist working in Cambridge. But in a chaotic new world ruled by treachery and betrayal, doing the right thing can get a man killed. Surviving his brush with death, Rossett agrees to save his friend’s daughter.

But when Koehler’s wife and daughter are kidnapped by American spies, the terrified German turns to the only man he trusts to help him-a shrewd cop who will do whatever is necessary to get the job done: John Rossett. Desperate to avoid blame over the events that led to the shooting, his boss, Ernst Koehler, covers up the incident.

In London, decorated detective John Henry Rossett, now reporting to the Nazi victors, lies in a hospital bed recovering from gunshot wounds. With the end of the war, the victorious Germans now occupy a defeated Great Britain. In this crackling alternate history thriller set in the years after World War II-the riveting sequel to The Darkest Hour-London detective John Rossett joins forces with his Nazi boss to save the commander’s kidnapped daughter as the Germans race to make the first atomic bomb.

The British Lion by Tony Schumacher