The False Correspondent (The Hidden Front)

Perfect for readers of Robert Harris and Ken Follett, The False Correspondent is a sweeping historical thriller of espionage, divided loyalties, and the secret war unfolding as Europe braces for Hitler’s invasion of the West.



An American passport. A journalist’s credentials. A mission that could hand Hitler the West.

November 1939. Poland has fallen, and Hitler’s generals are preparing an audacious assault through the supposedly impassable Ardennes. Before they risk an army, they need a spy behind Allied lines.

German-born and American-raised, Abwehr officer Christoph “Chris” Ryder has the perfect cover: a Chicago Tribune correspondent with access to Allied commanders, defenses, and front lines. To make the deception convincing, he must rekindle his romance with Madeline “Maddy” Smith, a fearless CBS reporter and committed anti-Nazi whose trust gives him access to the Allied front. She has no idea their discoveries are becoming secret reports to Berlin.

But as the invasion draws closer and Chris moves deeper behind Allied lines, his conviction that he can serve Germany without serving Hitler begins to unravel—and concealing his true purpose grows more dangerous by the day.

French intelligence is tracking his radio. MI6 knows a German agent is hiding among the foreign press. The SS has marked him for death. And Maddy is beginning to understand that the man she loves has been lying to her.

Caught between duty, conscience, and a cover collapsing around him, Chris must decide how far he will go to complete his mission.

But the intelligence he has already sent to Berlin may leave him with no choice at all.