A pilot shattered by war wakes in a foreign hospital with no memory of who he is. So begins Arthur W. Marchmont's electrifying 1919 thriller, in which Jack Lancaster discovers he's been mistaken for a missing German man named Johann Lassen, engaged to a woman called Rosa while his true love, Nessa, vanishes somewhere in war-torn Germany. Jack makes a daring choice: assume Lassen's identity and infiltrate the enemy country to find her. What follows is a breathless cat-and-mouse game through the shadowy world of WWI espionage, where every smile hides suspicion and every truth could be a death sentence. Marchmont writes with the propulsive energy of a man who lived through the war himself, crafting a tale where identity itself becomes the most dangerous currency. The novel pulses with urgency: can Jack find Nessa before his charade collapses, or will the chaos of Europe swallow them both? For readers who crave adventure that thinks as hard as it thrills.
