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The Second Traitor by Alex Gerlis

12 March 2026 By Editor

It’s September 1940, and British intelligence is on high alert: the Nazi invasion of Britain is imminent. The German navy is assembling a vast fleet in Rotterdam to ferry men and materiel across the Channel. Meanwhile, a sinister organisation called The Group, a collection of British and Irish Nazi collaborators, is at work within the […]

The Second Traitor by Alex Gerlis

14 August 2025 By Editor

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’ […]

Review: The Second Traitor by Alex Gerlis

14 August 2025 By Alan Bardos

Alan Bardos reviews the new Second World War spy thriller from Alex Gerlis, The Second Traitor. The Second Traitor is the latest novel in Alex Gerlis’s Double Agent quartet, which follows the trials of two Soviet spies in the British Secret Service from the 1930s to the late 1950s; from the rise of Nazism to […]

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