The False Correspondent

byRoger Kelly Smith

Book #1 ofThe Hidden Front

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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.

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Roger Kelly Smith holds advanced degrees in international politics from the London School of Economics (MSc) and Georgetown University (Ph.D.); in addition, he earned a law degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. He taught international politics and American defense policy at the University of Massachusetts, while serving as the executive director of the Aspen Strategy Group, a nonpartisan Aspen Institute think tank examining national security matters. Concurrent with his Aspen appointment, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Center for International Affairs. Before entering public service with the California Court of Appeal, he was in private practice as a civil litigator with several large international law firms. He, his wife, and their dog divide their time between downtown Los Angeles and a mountain cottage in Lake Arrowhead, California.