Crucible of Deceit — Patrick W. O'Bryon

EUROPE AT WARJANUARY 1942While a bloody struggle engulfs the Continent from the shores of the Atlantic to the Russian steppes, covert agents are on the move. Ryan Lemmon seeks an American scientist trapped in fascist Italy, but belligerent nations stand in his way. René Gesslinger lands covertly in France to stop the torture and murder of resistance fighters, only to meet treachery at every turn. And in Berlin a woman code-named Klara, trained to seduce and destroy enemies of the Reich, receives new orders certain to roil this cauldron of deception.The sequel to the Corridor of Darkness trilogy takes the reader deep into the duplicitous world of espionage and counterespionage, agent and double agent, where allegiances can shift and no one knows whom to trust.