The Traitor

Fans of Reese WitherspoonΓÇÖs Book Club picks eager for their next moving historical novelΓÇölook no further! Readers of The Alice Project and The Lost Girls of Paris will be enthralled by V.S. AlexanderΓÇÖs The Traitor. Drawing on the true story of the White RoseΓÇöthe resistance movement of young Germans against the Nazi regimeΓÇöThe Traitor tells of one woman who offers her life in the ultimate battle against tyranny during one of historyΓÇÖs darkest hours. In the summer of 1942,as war rages across Europea series of anonymous leaflets appears around the University of Munichspeaking out against escalating Nazi atrocities. The leaflets are hidden in public placesor mailed to addresses selected at random from the phone book. Natalya Petrovicha studentknows who is behind the leafletsΓÇöa secret group called the White Roseled by siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends. As a volunteer nurse on the Russian frontNatalya witnessed the horrors of war first-hand. She willingly enters the White RoseΓÇÖs circlewhere every hushed conversationevery small act of dissent could mean imprisonment or death at the hands of an infuriated Gestapo. Natalya risks everything alongside her friendshoping the power of words will encourage others to resist. But even among those she trusts mostthere is no guarantee of safetyΓÇöand when danger strikesshe must take an extraordinary gamble in her own personal struggle to survive. Praise for V.S. AlexanderΓÇÖs The IrishmanΓÇÖs Daughter ΓÇ£Accompanied by an expertly rendered plotbold and empathetic charactersand prose that jumps off the pagethis tale will particularly satisfy fans of historicals and those looking for stories about the redeeming grace of faith and hard work.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöPublishers WeeklySTARRED REVIEW