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The Interpreter

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Followingon from the excellently received ‘A Packhorse Called Rachel ‘ the new book from author Marcelle Kellermann is awartime thriller, but as with her previous work far from a complete fictionalinvention based as it is closely on her own experience .

Set during the occupation of France of 1940 – 44 during which time the authorfought as a member of the resistance. The story follows her interrogationimprisonment and subsequent unexpected release by the German Nazi Officer FrankVan Heugen, the official interpreter in the German Kommandatur of Vichy France.

 

Intrigued whenafter the war the same man is awarded the Croix de la Résistance by Général deGaulle marcelle Kellermann discovered that ‘The Interpreter’ had been a Germananti-Nazi double agent and decided to write about the life she imagines he musthave led, always in great personal danger, covertly working day and night withthe French resistance movement and the Allies under the watchful eyes of theWehrmacht.

A story by turn both tragic and at times darkly humorous, each chapter can beregarded as a short episode in its own right detailing this remarkable anti -hero’s life and his struggle for humanity during Europe’s darkest hour.

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