The Colditz Legacy

Oct 22, 2024 11:18 PM

Author:Guy Walters

The Colditz Legacy

Germany 1941. Two British officers, Hugh Hartley and Malcolm Royce, achieved what many believed to be impossible. They escaped from Oflag IVC, better known as Colditz Castle. But as they are about to cross the border into Switzerland, and within yards of reaching freedom, Royce is shot. He begs Hartley to go on and save himself. Wracked with guilt, Hartley leaves his friend behind.

London, 1973. Thirty years later and Hartley is now a senior MI6 officer. When a shadowy contact tips him off that Royce may still be alive, and still being held in Colditz - now a lunatic asylum - Hartley is desperate to discover what really happened to his friend. He plans a perilous mission to break back into Colditz, but the truth he will find there will be more shocking than he could possibly have imagined.

Reviews

Hard as nails

—— Daily Mirror

Slick, polished and gut-wrenching stuff

—— Irish Times

Lean prose delivers all the action with the usual trenchant force ... The plot moves like the proverbial express train

—— The Good Book Guide

Chock full of military fat to chew on ... will keep you awake til dawn

—— FHM

Marvellously drawn

—— Economist

Really first class . . . a continual delight

—— Times Literary Supplement

Josephine Tey enjoys a category to herself, as a virtuoso in the spurious . . . the nature of the deception on this occasion is too good to give away

—— New Statesman

Tey's style and her knack for creating bizarre characters are among the best in the field

—— New Yorker

Most people will find The Daughter Of Time as interesting and enjoyable a book as they will meet in a month of Sundays

—— Observer

A detective story with a very considerable difference. Ingenious, stimulating and very enjoyable

—— Sunday Times

Josephine Tey has always been absolutely reliable in producing original and mysterious plots with interesting characters and unguessable endings

—— Spectator

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