father Land

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Berlin, 1939.

Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, triggers a clandestine operation to penetrate and co-opt the American peace movement. His purpose: retard the activist pre-war agenda of President Franklin Roosevelt, including Lend-Lease aid to a dying Britain and resistance to Nazi hegemony.

Chris Joyce is a second-career writer (version 2.0), after three decades as a CFO. He appreciates the freedom that fiction allows, after working with financial facts for so many years.

He lives in Northern Virginia.

Father Land is his second novel.

Washington, D.C.

Reverend Charles Adams Trace, WWI veteran and well known pastor of the capital’s Good Shepherd Church, becomes the de- facto spokesman for the swelling American anti-war front. He uses his pulpit and national radio popularity to exhort his growing flock to keep America out of the looming European war.