Cold War and before contains five stories. It starts on our timeline in World War II (Mrs Henderson's Limp, Colette) and then branches into a new Cold War (Excerpts from Col's Diaries, Through my Eyes, Again.). Whilst WW2 espionage is the initial setting, the latter books are set in an alternate Cold War and chronicle the events that happen to a defector from communist East Germany, her child and a very strange friend. One of the books (Colette) won Editors' Choice in the Bookshelf 2023 writing awards and the fifth book (Through different Eyes) is a finalist in the 2023 PageTurner awards.
Elise Henderson is parachuted into occupied southern France in May 1944 to report on the movements of the 2nd SS Panzer Division.
What she experiences changes her forever.
Colette’s peaceful life in France is shattered when the Nazi steamroll across her country. In England, she joins the WAAF, training as a radar operator. There, her French accent is noticed and she is recruited into the Special Operations Executive to spy in France. She is infiltrated into France to work with the Resistance. But Nazi tracking vans are out. Her messages must be short and she moves fast after each one. It’s a game of cat and mouse which Colette must win … every time.
Seventy-year-old Will Johnstone dozes off one afternoon, half a glass of red wine beside him. He wakes in 1962 crouched beside a railway line, in his twelve-year-old body.
Will finds unexpected friends and becomes involved in Cold War events
What happened to Col and Mutti Frida when they disappeared from Will's life?
It is suggested you read "Through my Eyes. Again." before reading this novel.
Twenty chapters plus epilogue. The complete book is available on Bookapy.
