Reckoning

by Tim Oliver

A thrilling tale of spy craft, love and courage that charts the desperate gamble that would alter the course of the war and forever change the people who take part. Europe’s Darkest Hour France, 1940. The German army is rampaging across the continent. Lieutenant Arthur Scottsdale and the British Expeditionary Force are trapped and facing annihilation. A Secret That Could Change Everything Helene Dubois and Maurice Fauvelle are in hiding from the advancing German armies. They hold the key to a breakthrough in radar technology that will prove as important to Britain as rescuing her stricken army. A Daring Mission Scottsdale must find the scientists and bring them to safety before the front line collapses. But they are being hunted by Schiller, a ruthless SS officer who will stop at nothing to prevent their escape. If they succeed the balance of the war will be tipped in the Allies’ favour but if they fail the shadow of Nazism will fall further across the world. As they are caught in the chaos of the Dunkirk rearguard, Scottsdale will struggle to reconcile his assumptions about duty and morality with the realities of war and the complications of love, as he battles to make it home alive. Praise for Reckoning ”Brilliantly gets the reader right into the chaos that was a soldier's lot on early 1940s France” ”A thought-provoking story…of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in difficult times” ”Thrilling and full of drama” Longlisted for 2020 Historical Writer’s Association Unpublished Novel Award Reckoning is the first of a brand new historical fiction series that follows Scottsdale from his baptism of fire at Dunkirk to the defeat of Germany and Japan in 1945. Keep up to date at www.timothyoliver.co.uk

316 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2019