Double Two

by Steve Schach, Sharon Stein

On May 10, 1941, Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer of Nazi Germany, flies to Scotland on his own initiative to negotiate a peace treaty between Britain and Germany. Furious, Adolf Hitler orders his secret agents in Britain to locate Hess and kill him. MI5, the British secret service, intercepts the message and uses it to smoke out German agents in Britain, employing two Hess look-alikes as bait. German Military Intelligence sends an SS assassin, Major Helmut Kirchgässner, to Britain to kill Hess. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues in southeast England and western Scotland, with multiple cats and multiple mice.

247 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 7, 2016

About the author

For 26 years, Steve Schach was a professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. At the end of 2009, Steve moved to Sydney, Australia. Before he began writing thrillers, Steve wrote 13 best-selling software engineering textbooks, which are used in universities all over the world. Down Under, Steve intended to become a full-time grandfather, and limit his intellectual activities to solving cryptic crossword puzzles and avidly watching Sesame Street with his grandchildren. However, the urge to write proved to be far too strong to overcome, hence his historical spy thriller, Old Bach Is Come which was published in March 2013. While the book was in production, Steve completed two more historical spy thrillers, both set in World War II.