The German occupation of Norway during World
War II transformed a peaceful courdry into a
deadly field of Allied, German, and partisan
activity. Some people escaped to England and
there joined the Norwegian army under exiled
King Haakon. Others crossed the border into
neutral Sweden and entered underground train-
ing battalions. Many of those who chose to fight
in their homeland took to the mountains and
began a slow, bloody resistance, in constant
danger from the Germans mobile death squads.
For nine resistance fighters of tiny Loftheim,
the war became a long midnight, in which their
patriotism and their beliefs were put to cruel
test. One failed the test, and became a quisling,
atraitor.
Which of the nine betrayed long friendships
and love of country to join forces with the
Gestapo? Was it Per Vidgren, whose house
protected them, his wife, Karl, or Aud Bull, a
golden-haired Norwegian beauty? Or was it
Knut Kierulf, Loftheim s mayor, or Bjornson, the
fisherman from Narvik? Or perhaps one of
the others? To locate the traitor, two men are
sent from Britain--a Scottish lieutenant-colonel,
young, dedicated, and embittered by an unfaith-
ful wife, and an imperturbable sergeant. Their
mission is brutally simple: find the quisling,
expose him, and kill him.
In The Long Midnight, Alan White has drawn
on his own experiences as leader of a commando
unit to capture the stark reality of German-
occupied Europe, when a man s best means of
survival was his ability to think fast, move silently,
take risks, and, if necessary, kill without hesi-
tation.
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