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FOREWORD

 

This novel is based on real wartime intelligence operations in Sweden with their heroes and villains. Most of the characters, events, and locations are accurate. I have tried to stick to the known facts whenever possible. Solid historical research went into writing the novel, which was inspired by W. Hugh Thomas’ investigative work entitled The Strange Death of Heinrich Himmler, the ‘White Buses’ operation organized by Count Folke Bernadotte and the Swedish Red Cross to save the Scandinavian prisoners of German concentration camps, the secret negotiations between SS-Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg and the Swedish, British and American governments at the end of the war and numerous books on SOE and MI6 operations in Sweden.