Excellent second book in this trilogy between the cat and mouse goings on in Rome
during the Nazi occupation. The characters are so finely drawn and the atmosphere
so tense you feel like you are there: This author is one of my favorites and this book
did not disappoint.

Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for a review.

What a heartbreaking, compelling read. These stories are always so hard to read but also I'm always very grateful that I did. This one has a story I've never heard and it has a gripping plot with amazing characters and a world and time brought to life. This setting of this book was so well done that it really brought this story to life for me. Such a good perspective and fascinating read.

The Choir is riven with internal tensions and infighting. The organization is in danger of falling apart, which would leave thousands of escaped allied soldiers, POWs, Jews, and objectors stranded in a Rome that is ruled with vicious efficiency by the Nazis. Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, the architect of the Escape Line and acknowledged leader of The Choir, broods inside the Vatican, seemingly paralyzed by what he sees as the intolerable risks of keeping the Escape Line in operation.
One man has been given the task of definitively destroying the entire operation and the price of his failure is high—SS Commander Paul Hauptmann’s wife and children are under Gestapo supervision in Berlin. Hauptmann is ordered to stay on in the city he both loathes and loves and to dismantle the Escape Line, or watch his family perish. Into this deliriously thrilling melee steps the Contessa Giovanna Landini, a reckless, audacious, and magnetic member of the Italian Resistance who has the nerve to challenge Hauptmann’s authority.