The Day Before Sunrise: A Novel

Reich Special Investigator Ernst Schöller contrives his escape from embattled Berlin with his unparalleled knowledge of the highest in the land. There is nothing, and no-one, of importance in the dritte Reich he doesn't know about. Using his position and knowledge, he begins to bargain for his life with the Allies in the person of Allen Welsh Dulles, chief of the O.S.S. in Switzerland. Realising that a delayed surrender by Germany will mean deeper penetration into Europe by the Communists, both men agreethat Schöller should be supervised in his intelligence gathering, but the only agent availableis a young American clerk, Elliott, who has no field training. A strange relationship formsbetween the two men in the environment of mutual self-interest; as horrors unimaginable blunt the sensitivities of the young American he begins to learn the trade-crafts of deceptionand survival in the shadowy world of espionage. Thomas Wiseman has written a novel-of-fact, an accurate reconstruction of actual events;