Comrades of Deceit — Anthony Hulse

During WWII, Frankie Broderick joins the army at the age of eighteen and his first experience of warfare is on the beaches of Normandy. Captured by the SS and believing that his time in a prison camp would be more comfortable, he decides to impersonate his doppelganger, Captain Simon Carey, by faking amnesia. What he did not count on was that Carey is a murder suspect. Lieutenant Patrick Starkey is a playboy. His drinking enhanced by the news of his sister's murder. Dissatisfied with the police investigation, he decides to pursue the murderer himself. These two men with dissimilar backgrounds are brought together in bizarre circumstances, which results in a horrific and unbelievable scenario. Frankie not only has to endure the starvation and the brutality in Stalag IV-B, but also must convince friends and enemy alike that he is indeed a British officer. A tense thriller packed with twists, which will keep you guessing the identity of the murderer until the final pages.