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If you’re hooked on Susan Elia MacNeal’s series with Maggie Hope, mathematician and British spy during WWII, you’ll be glad to hear that her latest, His Majesty’s Hope, is launching May 14th. Maggie’s deeper into danger than ever. This is a WWII thriller you won’t want to miss; exciting and, despite the subject matter, not overly grim or depressing. MacNeal keeps her sense of humor and fast-paced storytelling.
Maggie’s been trained as a spy and is about to be the first woman dropped behind enemy lines to bring radio parts to the opposition and assist with a mission. That’s lethal enough, but if you know Maggie’s family background from the previous books, you’ll know that’s only the beginning of the trouble she’ll find. MacNeal’s first two books in the series, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary and Princess Elizabeth’s Spy, stayed in England with a focus on the home front and English leadership. Now we’re in the maw of hell: Nazi euthanasia of “defective” people and the rounding up of Jews, to mention only two examples. MacNeal’s inventive plot—including at one point the most imaginative escape route I’ve ever heard of—combines characters both in Germany and England who face searing choices and often rise above the brutal times in which they live. Maggie’s romances grow more complicated and the emotional scars pile up. The nail-biting and page-turning don’t slow down for a minute.
Would love to read this!
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