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December 1 1941. Thomas Wall, an American, awakens in a ward at the Rowansea Royal Hospital in England, an asylum for victims of shell-shock. All he remembers is that he must find his brother, who works for the American Embassy, because he believes that Earl betrayed his unit in Crete, leaving Tom the only survivor. Tom had gone up to Canada to enlist, as did many other idealistic young Americans, before the US entered the war on December 8 1941. By late 1941, the German espionage system in England, unknown to the Abwehr, had been compromised. The British had infiltrated the network and it was really being run by a group of Brits called The Twenty Committee, (XX or Double Cross) Unknown to Tom, Earl has been missing for a week. Rupert Davis-Frank needs Tom to impersonate Earl and talk to a captured German, recently landed in the UK, named Sondegger. When a nurse comes to get Tom dressed to meet Davis-Frank, he overpowers a sadistic male nurse and escapes. Meanwhile, the other agent, a woman, has not been caught, and she is merrily murdering Brits while musing on the excitement of the Blitz, which she was sorry she had missed. MI5 recaptures Tom and arranges for him to impersonate Earl and get the vital information that Sondegger will release only to Earl. Sondegger knows that the Japanese fleet has sailed and is headed for Pearl Harbor. This is the information that Sondegger wants to release to Earl. DOUBLE CROSS BLIND is an exciting World War II thriller. Did the Abwehr have information that the Japanese were going to attack the United States? Would they try to get that intelligence to the Americans so they could possibly thwart the attack and thus stay out of the war? This book is a masterful melding of fact and fiction. It moves along swiftly. Ross gives excellent word pictures of the way the British stiff-upper lip kept the nation going after the dreadful attacks of the Luftwaffe.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, January 2006
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