Shadow of the Wolf

Shadow of the Wolf
By James Barwick (aka Anthony Barwick and Donald James)
Published: 1978

May 10th 1941: Captain Alfred Horn of the Luftwaffe is assigned navigator on an Me 110 piloted by Rudolph Hess, Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich. Hess is enroute to an airfield in Scotland for a clandistine meeting with a senior American General. Before the Me 110's flight is complete it is shot down by a RAF Spitfire, Hess is injured and it falls to Horn to complete the mission. Horn soon finds himself trapped in a hostile country with only a lone American service woman as a friend. Soon everyone is after Horn and the information he carries, the British, the Americans and the dreaded SS.

A quick read, which is a good thing. For a book trying to say "this is how it could have been" there is an awfully lot of coincindences/acts of fate that allow Horn to escape from desperate situations and I found that to wear thin pretty quick. There are much better World War 2 conspiracy novels out there.

** out of *****

Timothy Findley's Famous Last Words is recommended instead of this.