In the fall of 1943, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Teheran to determine the endgame of the war. But what if Hitler, canny enough to realize he could no longer win the war, was putting out peace feelers? And what if his secret offer threatened to do what his armies could not, destroy the alliance against him? Hitler's Peace delves into just such murky waters. The Germans send a team to kill the Big Three with special emphasis on Stalin. As the players and their surrogates deal and double-deal, Kerr ratchets up the tension even as his ticking time bomb of a plot challenges our deepest notions of good and evil. ( )

In Hitler’s Peace, Kerr takes 20th century history and creates historical fiction worth reading. To exclaim that Mr. Kerr has an incredible grasp of the written word and is able to bring alight the happenings of World War Two, as he did in A German Requiem, with such verve that they spring forth from the page is almost as understatement. The dynamic roles of the two primary characters Willard Mayer and Walter Schellenberg and his ability to weave them into their respective zeitgeists’ makes this novel one that is hard to put down. ( )