Agent in the Shadows: Book 3


 Agent in the Shadows
 
 
 Cover
 
 
 Title Page
 
 
 Main Characters
 
 
 The Wolf
 
 
 Introduction
 
 
 Chapter 1
 
 
 Chapter 2
 
 
 Chapter 3
 
 
 Chapter 4
 
 
 Chapter 5
 
 
 Chapter 6
 
 
 Chapter 7
 
 
 Chapter 8
 
 
 Chapter 9
 
 
 Chapter 10
 
 
 Chapter 11
 
 
 Chapter 12
 
 
 Chapter 13
 
 
 Chapter 14
 
 
 Chapter 15
 
 
 Chapter 16
 
 
 Chapter 17
 
 
 Chapter 18
 
 
 Chapter 19
 
 
 Chapter 20
 
 
 Chapter 21
 
 
 Chapter 22
 
 
 Chapter 23
 
 
 Chapter 24
 
 
 Chapter 25
 
 
 Chapter 26
 
 
 Chapter 27
 
 
 Chapter 28
 
 
 Chapter 29
 
 
 Chapter 30
 
 
 Chapter 31
 
 
 Chapter 32
 
 
 Chapter 33
 
 
 Chapter 34
 
 
 Chapter 35
 
 
 Chapter 36
 
 
 Epilogue
 
 
 Author’s Note
 
 
 Victims of the Gestapo raid on the Jewish orphanage at Izieu, 6 April 1944
 
 
 About the Author
 
 
 Also by Alex Gerlis
 
 
 Copyright
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cover
 
 
 Table of Contents
 
 
 Start of Content
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Main Characters
 
 British (and US) Characters
 Jack Miller American journalist and British agent
 Barnaby Allen (Barney) MI6 officer, London
 Piers Devereux Barney’s boss at MI6
 Roly Pearson British Intelligence chief
 Basil Remington-Barber head of MI6 Berne
 Noel Moore MI6 officer, Berne
 Nicholas/Jeffrey Morgan British fascist
 Tom Gilbey MI6 officer
 Harold Dickson fascist recruit
 Lawrence British radio operator, Switzerland
 Stephen Summers solicitor, London
 Cedric man at Hope pub
 
 
 German Characters
 Sophia von Naundorf British agent
 Siegfried Schroth actor and British agent in Düsseldorf
 Klaus Barbie Gestapo chief, Lyon
 Konrad Busch SS officer, Berlin
 Hannelore Busch wife of Konrad Busch
 Heinz-Wilhelm Schütze man killed in Brandenburg
 Klara Förster sister of Heinz-Wilhelm Schütze
 Günther Förster husband of Klara
 Johanna Brüderlin sister of Klara and Heinz-Wilhelm Schütze
 Georg Lange Abwehr officer, Paris
 Wagner Gestapo officer, Paris
 Helmut Knochen SS commander, Paris
 Luise Brunner secretary sent to work at Gestapo HQ, Lyon
 Walter Möller Lyon Gestapo
 Otto Winter Lyon Gestapo ADC to Barbie
 Franz Boehm Lyon Gestapo
 
 
 French Characters
 Marcel Mars Resistance Network, Lyon
 Maurice Mars Resistance Network, Lyon
 Michel Mars Resistance Network, Lyon
 Anna Rousseau Mars Resistance Network, Lyon
 Madame Madelaine Mars Resistance Network, Lyon
 René Dupont chef de centre adjoint, milice
 Madame Faure café owner, Lyon
 Doctor Hubert Mars Resistance Network, Lyon
 Benoît Roux French Resistance in Geneva
 Agnes Kléber office manager at Gestapo HQ, Lyon
 Hugo Resistance, Strasbourg
 Marie Resistance, Strasbourg
 Georges Moreau traitor
 
 
 Swiss Characters
 Captain Gerber Berne police officer, contact of Basil
 Harald Mettler clerk at Swiss Embassy, Berlin, British agent
 Emile Jeanneret watch expert, Geneva
 Rolf Eder MI6 agent Zürich
 
 
 Russian Characters
 A.I. Stepanov (Arkady) NKVD Commissar, Berne
 Leytenant Mikhail Danielovich Marshak Red Army officer, Krakow
 Polkovnik Krupkin NKGB officer, Krakow
 Nikolai Soviet Legation, Berne
 
 
 Polish Characters
 Raisa Loszynski daughter of Roman Loszynski
 Max Loszynski son of Roman Loszynski
 
 
 
 The Wolf
 In the closing hours of a wolf’s life, as it approaches the end of its final journey, look into its eyes to understand the life it has led.
 It will have been a hard life, always alert to danger, burdened by the strain of constant vigilance: not knowing who to trust and where the enemy lurks.
 And as its final days approach, the wolf will leave the pack, knowing it is now vulnerable and hoping it can fade away in peace.
 France was always dangerous territory for the wolf. It was hunted to extinction there in 1933, the same year Hitler came to power in Germany.
 Yet for many years after, including during the Second World War, throughout rural France one would often see three words painted in large red letters on country walls and bridges.
 Mort au loup.
 Kill the wolf.
 
 
 Introduction
 The historical context of Agent in the Shadows is set out in more detail at the end of the book. However, I thought it would be helpful to mention some important elements of the story at the outset.
 France fell to the Nazis in June 1940. From then until late 1942, Lyon – France’s third largest city – was in the so-called Free Zone, the collaborationist Vichy regime. In reality, the city was under the Nazi yoke. It came directly under German control from November 1942 until its liberation at the beginning of September 1944.
 On 14 September 1944 General de Gaulle, the leader of the Free French, visited the city and addressed the crowds on Place des Terreaux from the balcony of the Hôtel-de-Ville. Describing the city as ‘…la capitale de la Résistance Française…’ he went on to say: ‘How to tell Lyon all the emotion, all the gratitude I feel in this Gallic capital, which was the capital of the French Resistance and which is today a very large city in our France covered with wounds, shining in its honour and carried away by its hope.’
 The question of the French Resistance is a complex one, not least because it tends to mask the significant collaboration – passive and otherwise – by large parts of the French population and officialdom. There is also no question that for a long period of the war the Resistance was little more than an annoyance for the German occupiers and limited in its effectiveness.
 Having said that, as D-Day approached and thereafter, the Resistance was of considerable importance. Indeed, after the war, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, General Dwight Eisenhower, famously described the French Resistance as having been worth ‘an extra six divisions’. While this may have been an exaggeration, it would be wrong to underestimate