The Exile: From the author of the bestselling THE PARTISAN

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The prequel to break-out debut phenomenon Patrick Worrall's The Partisan, following a young Greta as she journeys into the dark underbelly of France to rescue her lieutenant's missing daughter, Morta. A white-knuckle ride into the dark heart of Europe after the Second World War, taking partisan and would-be assassin Greta from the smouldering ruins of Germany to the glamour and corruption of France's glittering C te d'Azur. With Soviet Russia on the march, how can she protect her homeland It's 1951 and the forces of Joseph Stalin are closing in on a brave band of resistance fighters holding out in the dark forests of Lithuania. One must escape the net- Greta, best and bravest of the partisans. Her mission is to cross the Iron Curtain and find new allies in the fight against Soviet rule. But the West is full of thieves and killers too, and they are harder to spot...

Author Bio

Patrick Worrall was educated in Worcestershire and King's College, Cambridge. He has worked as a teacher in eastern Europe and Asia, a newspaper journalist, a court reporter at the Old Bailey and the head of Channel 4 News's FactCheck blog. The Partisan is his first novel.