Book Description

A fiction novel based in real facts in the years 1937-40 when Adolf Hitler tried to obtain the cooperation of the ex-British king Edward VIII, then Duke of Windsor, to return back to the British throne after the Nazi occupation. Action following the movements of the Duke and Mrs. Wallis Simpson through Germany, France, Spain, and Portugal, during the Nazi regime, occupied France, and the Salazar and Franco fascist regimes.

Details about the period when the Duke was hosted in Cascais, near Lisbon, in a villa of a Portuguese banker with deep relationships with the Hitler regime; the role of Winston Churchill in the resistance to the German ambitions and the behavior of the Duke; the collaboration between the diplomatic and uncovered British resistance in Portugal, and the uncovered Portuguese resistance—everything under an environment of espionage and conspiracy, and of love, in wartime.

About the Author

A journalist and writer, sixty-three years old, with a professional career spanning over forty years. He is a journalist of investigation and an expert on international and diplomatic affairs. He has covered many of the main world events in the last quarter of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century: wars and peace processes in the Middle East, North and South Africa, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe.

He has been a director of Portuguese newspapers and magazines, and an invited analyst on international and diplomatic affairs on Portuguese TV and radio networks, including Radio France International and BBC World (Portuguese Section). He is the author of several books about the War on Lebanon (1982), investigations into the Mafia, and the fall of Ambrosian Bank in connection with the Vatican Bank (1986), as well as the crises of 2011. This is his first novel.