To Live Another Day
By J.R. Rogers
A powerful period flavor embellishes this
intriguing novel replete with the shocking depravity rampant in the insular
Portuguese enclave of Lourenço Marques, the neutral colonial capital of
Portuguese Mozambique, during the early years of World War Two. It is June 1940
when, ahead of the Germans marching into Paris, Rudolf and Aleece Bamberger, a
young German-French Jewish couple flee to Africa to wait out the war where they
become embroiled in intrigue and espionage. Safe at last—or so it seems at
first—the Bamberger’s are diverted to Lourenço Marques because of a U-boat
threat rather than to Cape Town their original destination. Aleece, a French
citizen, finds work at the British consulate while Rudolf, her German husband,
but an emigrant to France before the war, drifts helplessly into the hands of
the Abwehr spymaster, Ludwig Janke. The Nazi’s tentacles run deep through the
tranquil colonial capital and his fearsome espionage operation soon ensnares
Rudolf and threatens him into cooperating. With spy-thriller plotting, To
Live Another Day vividly re-creates the skullduggery of Axis
intelligence operatives from MI6, the OSS, the Abwehr and other services
operating from this vast neutral harbor situated at the forefront of Indian
Ocean shipping lanes.
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To Live Another Day
J.R. Rogers
Born in Paris of American parents, J.R. Rogers is a writer who has
lived and worked in southern California since the 1980s. He holds a degree in
French literature and later studied short story writing at the University of
California, Irvine. Fluent in French he has worked principally in quality
management and as a writer for a number of firms in both Canada and the United
States. His writing focus has been pre-World War II historical novels of espionage
and intrigue set in little known and out of the way international locations.
His latest novel is his third to be set in Africa—where he lived for three
years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He began writing and publishing
short stories in 1996 and since 2008 has written eight historical fiction
novels and a number of short stories that have been published.
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