THE MAN IN THE BUNKER by Rory Clements
What if the world’s worst man survived the war?
In the summer of 1945, many people believe Hitler is still alive. Even Stalin, whose troops supposedly found his ashes outside the bunker in Berlin, is not convinced he is dead.
With new information suggesting the former Führer is hiding out in the Bavarian Alps preparing to return in triumph, Tom Wilde is sent to hunt him down.
His task? To seek out and interrogate those who were with Hitler in the bunker and could have helped him escape. He is joined by a Dutch Jew named Mozes Heck, a man whose own family was murdered by the Nazis. Heck is now a British officer, but he is also an avenger with a personal mission to kill SS war criminals – and to find his lost love.
But while many Germans and Austrians are glad to see the back of Hitler’s gang, diehard Nazis will do all in their power to thwart Wilde and Heck. They even use children as killers to further their murderous aims.
And then there is the tragic Lilly Marais – a beautiful Frenchwoman shamed and exiled by her people for consorting with the enemy. Could her desperate passion for an SS officer hold the key to Hitler’s whereabouts?
Wilde’s quest takes him from the refugee camps of southern Germany to the ruins of Soviet-held Berlin, deep into the ghostly corridors of the bunker itself. Then on to Nuremberg prison where the likes of Goering await trial and to Dachau concentration camp where unrepentant SS men are now interned.
Yet even as he unlocks the dark, blood-drenched secrets lurking in the mountains and lakes of the Tyrol and Bavaria, Wilde’s work is far from done. The closer he gets to the truth about Hitler’s fate, the more perilous and shocking his discoveries become. And who can he trust when his own side is riddled with deceit and betrayal?
