The Interrogator
Spring, 1941. The armies of the Reich are masters of Europe. Britain stands alone, dependent on her battered navy for survival, while Hitler's submarines - his '-grey wolves' - prey on the Atlantic convoys that are the country's only lifeline.
Lieutenant Douglas Lindsay is amongst just a handful of men picked up when his ship is torpedoed. Unable to free himself from the memories of that night at sea, he becomes an interrogator with naval intelligence, questioning captured U-Boat crews. He is convinced the Germans have broken British naval codes, but he's a lone voice, a damaged outsider, and his superiors begin to wonder - can he really be trusted when so much is at stake?
As the Blitz reduces Britain's cities to rubble and losses at sea mount, Lindsay becomes increasingly isolated and desperate. No one will believe him, not even his lover, Mary Henderson, who works at the very heart of the intelligence establishment. Lindsay decides to risk all in one last throw of the dice, setting a trap for his prize captive - and nemisis - U-Boat Commander Jürgen Mohr, the man who sent his ship to its doom...
Andrew Williams
Born Sheffield in 62, brought up in Lincolnshire, after studying English at Oxford I worked for ten years as a senior current affairs producer with the BBC, covering the big international stories of the day. My programme on the massacre at Srebrenica in 1995 was shortlisted for an Emmy and used in evidence at the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague. For the next ten years, I wrote and directed historical documentaries for the BBC and international co-producers, including an award winning series, ‘The Battle of the Atlantic’, and I wrote a couple of bestselling accounts of Second World War campaigns, ‘The Battle of the Atlantic’, and ‘D-Day to Berlin’, to accompany TV productions of the same name. My first novel, The Interrogator, was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Thriller of the Year Award and the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award, and it was The Daily Mail’s debut thriller of 2009. The second, To Kill A Tsar, was one of The Mail’s thrillers of 2010 and was shortlisted for The Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the Ellis Peters Award. My 1960’s espionage thriller, Witchfinder, was one of The Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year. The Daily Mail was decent enough to describe me as ‘as one of Britain’s most accomplished thriller writers’, and The Times Literary Supplement noted that ‘if le Carré needs a successor, Williams has all the equipment for the role.’ Very gratifying. But as you can imagine from the above, getting the history right is especially important to me: history thrillers are my thing!
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