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The Second Traitor by Alex Gerlis

14 August 2025 By Editor

Buy The Second Traitor by Alex Gerlis

It’s September, 1940, and British intelligence is desperately worried: the Nazi invasion of Britain is imminent.

A sinister organisation called The Group, a collection of British and Irish Nazi collaborators, is at work trying to support Hitler’s plans…

But that is not the only concern for the spy chiefs: the search for double agent ‘Archie’ – the Soviet spy and British traitor – is proving fruitless, and now they know there’s a second traitor, Bertie, also in play.

Will they be able to foil the invasion plans without their schemes being leaked to the enemy?

The Second Traitor by Alex Gerlis is published on 14 August, 2025.

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