The Son of the Reich

The boy everyone is searching for.
A mother determined to protect him.
An unspeakable secret.
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Every Reich needs its princes close.

London, 1939. When secret service agent John Osbourne discovers that two of the most wanted Nazi spies are after a certain Daisy García, he is convinced that this unknown woman is hiding an important secret—and that he must find her. He’s not wrong. The Spanish woman, employed by an English aristocrat as a lady’s companion, became pregnant by a high-ranking Nazi officer during a stay in Munich. Since then—and especially after the declaration of war—she has been fleeing from the enemy who wants to take her child, considered a prince of the Reich. In her escape, she finds refuge in the Epson family’s mansion, Glenmore Hall, which now shelters a boarding school. There, hidden among the children and with the help of the baroness and the dowager baroness, she decides to conceal her little Pat.

Meanwhile, in Madrid, the Nazis secretly commission an escape plan for a family from the party elite, in case everything—however unlikely—goes wrong. To organize it, they recruit Félix Zurita, a worldly young man often seen at embassies and soirées, whose contacts make him ideal for the mission. His family has long-standing ties with prominent Nazi officials and is therefore above suspicion. Yet beneath Félix’s easygoing façade hides an idealist ready to risk his life helping the Allies—and also a young woman desperate to protect her son.

A story of love and friendship, of secret plots and false identities, set between a Spain teeming with spies, the grand country estates of England, and Argentina as a haven for Nazis. And at its heart, two young people caught up in the greatest and most decisive deception of the Second World War.