When Carl von Menen boards the Cabo de Hornos for his voyage to Argentina, his mind is full of the dangers he faces in his new and uncertain role as a double agent. But no sooner has he set foot on deck than he meets a welcome distraction, in the form of the beautiful and intelligent Dr Maria Gomez.
Author: James Remmer spy novel writer
Spy novel writer based in the UK, influenced by John le Carré, Frederick Forsyth and my background in intelligence.
My debut novel 'Out of Mecklenburg: The Unwilling Spy' tells the story of young German diplomat Carl von Menen in 1940s Berlin and Buenos Aires. It was published in August 2017 in eBook, paperback and hardback.
The sequel, 'By Samborombon Bay: The Hunt for Carl von Menen', will be published on 11th December in eBook and paperback formats.
Carl von Menen
Carl von Menen is the protagonist of Out of Mecklenburg: The Unwilling Spy. He is only 28 at the start of the novel, a talented young diplomat who works at the German Foreign Office and keeps his loathing of Hitler well hidden.
On the shelf
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of seeing your book “in the wild” and on the shelves in bookshops. I felt my heart skip a beat when I saw Out of Mecklenburg: The Unwilling Spy on display in the fantastic independent book shop City Books.
Berlin, 1941
Carl von Menen is 28 years old, suave, wealthy and a rising star at the German Foreign office, yet he lives a duplicitous and dangerous life: he abhors the Nazis and wants Hitler dead, but his expectations of seeing a Nazi-free Germany shrink to despair, when he is unexpectedly assigned to Buenos Aires to keep a watchful eye on the emerging United Officers Group (GOU), a pro-Nazi/Fascist faction of military officers, led by the aspiring Colonel Juan Domingo Peron.
In Buenos Aires, von Menen is sucked into a cauldron of treachery, deceit, military revolutions and murder, heightened by the agony of his secret ideology, the long-reaching tentacles of the Gestapo and his clandestine dealings with Colonel Filipe Vidal, a man with a devious and sinister agenda.
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