Michael Croucher writes thriller and suspense fiction,usually in the crime and espionage categories. He is a former police and intelligence officer who served on a multi- service task force investigating organized crime. An award winning writer of short stories and fiction, he enjoys combining his police experience with historical research.
A beautiful billeting official sends an evacuated school boy on an apparently simple errand. The boy becomes a pawn in the botched defection of a German officer.
The tragic outcome fractures an already devastated family and sends the boy's brother on a decades long quest for truth and closure.