In 1942 a group of elite German officers dissatisfied with the Third Reich approaches the head of British intelligence and proposes a quick end to hostilities and a peace agreement with the Allies if the British will secretly assassinate Hitler
Frederick Taylor is a British novelist and historian specialising in modern German history.
He was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and read History and Modern Languages at Oxford University. He did postgraduate work at Sussex University on the rise of the extreme right in Germany in the early twentieth century. Before embarking on the series of historical monographs for which he is best known, he translated The Goebbels Diaries 1939–1941 into English and wrote novels set in Germany.