Counterfeit: All Roads Lead to Dunkirk

by Michael Scriven

Paul had thought that being a newspaper reporter would make his life more interesting. And it did. But not in the way he’d expected. Unwittingly involved in a murder and an international counterfeiting operation, he and his best friend Joe, a freelance photographer, soon realise that their lives are in imminent danger in an escalating criminal conspiracy that coincides with the outbreak of the Second World War.

Paul’s burgeoning love affair with Catherine, a young French woman, complicates his life even further. As Paul, Joe and Catherine struggle to come to terms with the brutalities of war and organised crime, their relationships are tested to the limit.
Violently separated from one another during a murderous German military attack on the Chateau de Cocove where they had taken refuge with remnants of the British Expeditionary Force in northern France, all three of them attempt against the odds to re-establish contact.

Counterfeit is a novel of love, friendship, deception, loss, survival and deliverance that begins on a tranquil beach in Sussex in southern England in August 1939 and ends amidst the destruction and carnage of the beaches of Dunkirk in May 1940.

226 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 21, 2017