An ordinary boy, a murderous regime. This is how it happened…
Berlin, 1933. 14-year-old Felix Stoltenberg is desperate to be friends with Klaus Beck to the point he defies his anti-Nazi parents and joins the Hitler Youth. As the years pass and Hitler’s grip on the nation tightens, Felix and Klaus’ boyhood pranks take a sinister turn.
But nothing prepares Felix and Klaus for the eruption of anti-Semitic violence. Felix can no longer stand aside and observe – he is forced to participate – whatever the price to his mother and father.
1942. Now, a young, idealistic man, still devoted to the Nazi cause, Felix’s life and sense of identity fall apart when he falls in love with Stella, a Bohemian artist.
Stella is beautiful, she is talented, she is a woman of mystery and ideas … and she is Jewish.
Read the opening chapters here.
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Kindle release date: 5th March 2024.