A Shadow of Treason (Chronicles of the Spanish Civil War, Book 2) (Paperback)

by Tricia Goyer (Author)

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Product Description
Sophie discovers that nothing is as she first imagined. When Walt, the reporter who helped her over the border, shows up again after Guernica is bombed, Sophie is given an impossible mission. She must leave behind the man she's fallen in love with and return to the person who betrayed her.Another layer of the war in Spain is revealed as Sophie is drawn into the international espionage schemes that could turn the tide of the war and help protect the soldiers from the International Brigade...she must find a way to get a critical peice of information to Walt in time.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Moody Publishers (September 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802467687
• ISBN-13: 978-0802467683
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #148,959 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Story, January 24, 2008

By	Barbara Warren - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

If you haven't discovered Tricia Goyer, you've missed a treat. In a Shadow of Treason, book two in her Spanish Civil War Series, Sophie Grace, who went to Spain to be with Michael her fiance, believes he's dead. After all, he died in her arms during a bombing raid. Then she learns it was all a farce. Michael faked his own death. Sophie has been recruited as a spy to find him and report back on his activities.
Sophie, who has fallen in love with Phillip, a man who doesn't hide secrets from her, and wouldn't deceive her, doesn't want to go. Michael may be alive, but he's dead to her.
Tricia Goyer does impeccable research, even interviewing veterans of the wars she writes about. Her settings are real, and her characters are so compelling she hooks the reader from page one.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tricia Goyer Does it Again, October 10, 2007

By	Elton P. Raby, Jr. "Elton P Raby, PhD" (Hattiesburg, Ms) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Let me start by encouraging any and all to get Tricia Goyer's books. She's young, intelligent and her books are all excellent. The first four were about WW11 and this current series is about Franco's spain and the war just prior to WW11. I've read them all and am waiting for the next one coming out in February 2008. A Shadow of Treason, Book 2 in the series picks up where Book 1, Valley of Betrayal ends. It's hard to put these books down. I'm 75 yrs old and served in the US Paratroopers during Korea and in the National Guard for an additional 20 yrs. I'm highly impressed with these works. EPR,PhD

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Painting History in Vivid Strokes, April 16, 2008

By	Eric Wilson "novelist" (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

For years now, Tricia Goyer has captured our imaginations with stark retellings of historical events. Using fiction as her canvas, she's painted the human drama of WWII Europe and the South Pacific. Her stories deal with national tragedies, while never forgetting the personal lives at stake, and that's what makes her novels so memorable.

In the Chronicles of the Spanish Civil War, Goyer gives us a largely unexplored setting. She educates while she entertains, even giving us a backdrop for a famous Picasso canvas. As I read, I found myself following, once again, the struggle of Sophie as she tries to use her talents for a good cause, as well as her struggle to discern who is telling her the truth and who is focused on treason. Torn between Michael and Philip, Sophie makes choices that will affect the outcome of the war. Along the way, she crosses paths with Spaniards, Moors, Germans, and Americans--many of them familiar from the first book in the series.

"A Shadow of Treason" weaves intricate threads of history and lives into a rich, impeccably researched novel, that accelerates toward a final showdown. I can't wait to read the conclusion to this wonderful series. Just as Bodie Thoene gave us a larger context for the Second World War's effects in her Zion Covenant Series, Goyer describes the political and social climate leading up to the outbreak of WWII. We see here the lines of fascism and communism, as well as the confusion that reigned in the minds of common people and the media.

I've read Goyer's non-fiction and found it to be wise and humorous, but as a fiction writer she is still one of my favorites in her genre. She crafts believable characters, conflicts, and settings, all under the umbrella of a deep yet never preachy faith.