December ’41

December '41 is a World War II thriller built around a manhunt that runs from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. in the first weeks after America entered the war. On the day after Pearl Harbor, shocked Americans gather around their radios to hear Franklin Roosevelt declare war. In Los Angeles, a German agent named Martin Browning is already planning to kill the president on the night he lights the National Christmas Tree. Three people stand in his way, or may. Frank Carter is a relentless FBI agent. Kevin Cusack is a Hollywood script reader who also spies on the German Bund of Los Angeles, and who becomes a suspect himself. Vivian Hopewell is an aspiring actress who signs on to play Browning's wife and finds herself falling in love with him. The clock is ticking, and the story moves through narrow escapes, mistaken identities and shocking deaths. It carries readers from the back lots of Hollywood to the Super Chief train and on to Christmas Eve, when twenty thousand people gather on the South Lawn of the White House and the lives of Roosevelt and his surprise guest, Winston Churchill, hang in the balance. The author, William Martin, is a New York Times bestselling novelist.