nach Schema F

Nb - contains plot spoiler

"It is 1997 in the German State of Great Britain.

Ellen Brauchitsch is a young Gestapo officer. She has been tasked with investigating the British governor. What she finds out about him, about the people she works for, will leave her questioning her loyalty to the Greater German Reich.

Marcus Dauny is a computer programmer and a loyal Nazi Party member. He wasn’t expecting that his skills would prove valuable to the English resistance, much less that he would agree to help them. But when he learns what their mission objectives are, he has to decide whether his conscience will allow him to continue.

As the English resistance proceed with their mission, SS-Sturmbannführer Wolf Loritz of the Geheime Staatspolizei, a man who failed in his attempts to prevent the assassination of the Führer in 1995, is desperate to discover what they are up.

The three of them do not realize that they alone are the people who can prevent the world from being plunged into a third world war."

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It took more than twenty years for me to write the sequel to "die Stunde X". In a way, as a dystopian thriller, with its downbeat ending, "die Stunde X" didn't really require a follow-up. But I began to grow more intrigued, more desperate to find out what happened to all of those who survived. The majority of the characters brought back for this second book - Klarsfeld, Ellen, Wolf Loritz - were all German. Over the last twenty years or so, I'd learnt a lot more about characterization, and so I'd endeavoured to bring these characters, and some of the new ones, to life. "Nach Schema F" is a thriller, though probably not as episodic as the first book. I wanted the reader to care about the characters, to feel excited. Though it is set only a couple of years after the first book, and features one of the younger characters from "die Stunde X" - Ellen Brauchitsch - it is less of a Young Adult novel, and more grown-up. Perhaps halfway through writing this novel, I decided that rather than just write a sequel, I should consider a trilogy. But that doesn't mean that "nach Schema F" ends in the middle of the plot. It stands as a novel in its own right, and as a good middle book in the trilogy.