The Gravesend Connection

About the Book

1939. Dr. Klaus Renner, a world-renowned professor returns to Berlin after a twenty-year absence. He is reunited with an old colleague, Max Schmidt, employed by Humboldt University...and the Nazi Abwehr. In the course of a casual dinner conversation, he convinces Renner of the importance of eliminating Great Britain from the conflict that will surely soon engulf Europe. Soon after, following the outbreak of war, Schmidt disappears and Renner is quick to make the connection between the man’s words and actions.

1940. Hitler’s plans for Operation "Sea Lion”, the invasion of Great Britain, are almost complete. Yet the Germans still have reasons to suspect that their most vital connection in Gravesend, from where the daughter of a Bavarian countess (codenamed “Daisy”) is operating, is compromised. Before the plans reach their final stage, Renner, now a member of the Abwehr, will have to be inserted into the country to prove that his colleague is indeed supplying factual information back to Berlin and that he has not been “turned” by the enemy.

It is in Gravesend, where a small group of individuals of doubtful loyalties will come face to face, the truth about each of them revealed and the fate of Great Britain and the war decided.

About the Author

Bart J. Wygonik was born in Gorlice, Poland in 1980 where he has lived for 11 years before settling down in the United States. He was educated in Poland, Germany and Rutgers University of New Jersey, where he is currently majoring in European history.
This is his first book.