The Traitors Circle

On September 10, 1943, a group of anti-Nazi German aristocrats gathered for an afternoon tea party. Little did they know that one of them was about to betray the others to the Gestapo...

Jonathan Freedland is one of The Guardian's most prominent columnists, as well as an incredible and prolific writer. He's penned nine novels — thrillers — under the name Sam Bourne. And under his own name, he's written a play and four works of nonfiction. His latest is: “The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany—and the Spy Who Betrayed Them," which just came out at the end of October.

It's nearly 400 pages long — but I couldn't put it down. The book is written almost like a "whodunit," but there's a deeper mystery — one that gets at the heart of the human spirit: what inspires people toward great acts of goodness?

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