A Game of Lies, the third volume in Rebecca Cantrell’s Hannah Vogel series, is enticing. Even anyone who has not previously read A Trace of Smoke (volume #1) or A Night of Long Knives (volume #2) will enjoy it as a stand-alone book. The setting is 1936 Germany, where the Nazis have taken full control of the government and the German nation. Headstrong, intelligent, and startlingly deductive, Hannah Vogel is back in Germany. Even the 1936 Summer Olympics will not stop Hannah and her partner in espionage, Lars Lang, from resuming their anti-Nazi work. However, it seems that there is more at stake than just their lives.
First, Hannah’s beloved mentor suddenly dies, leaving a mysterious secret unrevealed. Then Hannah begins to hear troubling hints about Lars’ new position in Gestapo headquarters and his chilling SS connections. Every step Hannah takes in the new regime puts her further in danger, where she is forced to choose whom to trust when all could be enemies. More importantly, she must decide whether the man she has entrusted her mission and her fate to is truly on her side or is a double agent intent on destroying her. The game of lies both characters play with the Nazis quickly escalates into a matter of inevitable “checkmate” in a world turned upside down. Hannah must fight back with the only weapons she has—her wits, her common sense, and her instincts.
To be continued...
A Game of Lies is available in local libraries and bookstores in Fresno, and online.
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