Night Trains
Occupied by the Germans, the strategically located town of Sofia, Poland, stands on the brink of annihilation in 1941. As every arrest and execution brings total obliteration closer to reality, two medical doctors devise an ingenious plan — to stage a typus epidemic that will force the Nazis to evacuate. The locals and their enemy swiftly become enmeshed in what soon becomes the most daring act of resistance in World War II. Jan Szukalski—A brilliant doctor, he masterminds the hoax with his partner, Mary Duszynska, whose work binds them together more strongly than love itself. Maximillian Hartung—A German officer, he is ruthless in his lust for personal power and determined to win Hitler's personal attention by breaking the resistance in Sofia. David Ryz—A young Jewish leader of a zealous band of partisans, he helps incite the town to violence and unwittingly puts the medical hoax in jeopardy. Gripping and powerful, Night Trains brilliantly illuminates the classic conflict between active and passive resistance in one town's fight for survival.
Praise for Barbara Wood:
"Strongly dramatic…tightly plotted." —Publishers Weekly
"A master storyteller storyteller. She never fails to leave the reader enthralled." —Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author of A Woman of Independent Means
“An accomplished storyteller.” —John Jakes, New York Times bestselling author
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Book details
- Author
- Barbara Wood, Gareth Wootton
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 358
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- Fiction › Historical
Fiction › Literary - Topics
- World War II fiction · Nazi occupation · Poland · historical fiction · resistance fighters · medical thriller · wartime survival
- ISBN-13
- 9781630263898 (Hardcover)9781596528628 (Paperback)
About the authors
BARBARA WOOD is an international bestselling author of more than twenty-five historical romance and fiction novels, writing under her own name and the pen name Kathryn Harvey. She is the author of Domina, a New York Times bestseller, and Night Trains.
Wood received the Corine Literature Prize in 2002.
When she’s not writing, Wood draws on a life shaped by transatlantic roots, having been born in Warrington, Lancashire, England, before growing up in California. Much of her fiction reflects that breadth of place and history.
Barbara lives in Riverside, California.
GARETH WOOTTON, whose full name is Devere Vere Gareth Wootton, is a physician specializing in plastic and general surgery and the co-author of Night Trains.
Wootton holds a clinical teaching position in the Division of Plastic Surgery at UCLA and earned his medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
When not writing, Wootton maintains a private practice in Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades, California, and has contributed story ideas to the television series Chicago Hope and Doogie Howser, M.D., and served as medical consultant on City of Angels.