Adolf Hitler runs his hand over two-month-old Thomasina Ware’s little head. “Red hair like hers is so very rare. Her hair is ethereal like the sky when it is on fire with the setting sun.” He shows her off to his Nazi officers. Her astounded parents, Colonel Sir Edward Ware and his American wife, Dora, watch in horror.

Ware’s an undercover agent for backbencher Winston Churchill, who’s running his own foreign policy in opposition to the Baldwin government. The two men are the sole possessors of the most coveted secret in Europe — the Lawrence maps drawn by the late Lawrence of Arabia. They explain how to take and defend every major position in the Middle East, including the oilfields that are the key to victory in the next war.

Hitler has found out Ware’s secret, and he’s playing hardball. He kidnaps Thomasina and won’t give the child back unless the Wares hand over the key to world domination — the Lawrence maps. They’d better do something fast before Thomasina truly becomes Hitler’s daughter.

Captive at the Berghof will soon be published by Cheops Books.

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