He is married with two daughters and lives in west London.Īn absolutely fascinating tale which begins with a young British diplomat being lured into a Soviet 'honey trap' leading to details of an audacious plan to establish the Fourth Reich, decades after the end of World War II. He has also worked for the BBC throughout Europe, the United States, the Middle East and in China, and from 2005 to March 2011 was Head of Training at the BBC College of Journalism – the body in charge of the training of the corporation's 7,500 journalists.Īlex's first novel was inspired by his work covering the 50th anniversary of D-Day from Normandy. In September 2001 he was one of the BBC Newsroom team covering the attack on the Twin Towers. In August 1998 he was the BBC TV News duty editor on the day of the Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, the coverage of which later won a Royal Television Society award. He has also edited Breakfast News, the One o'Clock News, the Six o'Clock News and the Weekend News for the BBC. Over the next twenty years he worked on a number of BBC News and Current Affairs programmes, including making documentaries for The Money Programme and election programmes with David Dimbleby and Jeremy Paxman. He graduated with a degree in Law and Politics from Hull University in 1977 and, after working as a political researcher and journalist, joined the BBC in 1983 as a researcher on Panorama. ‘I’ve enjoyed all three books by this author… Loved it, and can’t wait for his next novel.’Īlex Gerlis was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, in 1955. ‘Amazing plot that keeps the tension to the last page… One of the best spy novels I have read.’ ‘Superb read from a fast-maturing master of World War Two spy thrillers.’ The pair are drawn into a world of Nazi war criminals and sympathisers in Britain, double agents in the East and West and the rise of the Baader Meinhoff – urban terrorists threatening the West German state as Cold War tensions rise. Edgar is drawn into an unlikely alliance with an old adversary, Viktor, the veteran Russian spymaster. He contacts Major Edgar, a veteran British spymaster, now living in retirement.

Three decades later, a young British diplomat in East Berlin is compromised after falling into a honey-trap. SS recruits gather east of Berlin to be trained for an audacious yet ill-fated mission to bring about a Fourth Reich. In the dying days of the Second World War, a group of Nazis frantically plot the next steps for their country. ‘The same side as me? Even now I’m not sure which side I was on.’ The thrilling new novel with an astonishing twist from Alex Gerlis, the acclaimed author of The Best of Our Spies, The Swiss Spy and Vienna Spies.

The Best of Our Spies by Alex Gerlis