Berlin, 1939.
Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, triggers a clandestine operation to penetrate and
co-opt the American peace movement. His purpose: retard the activist pre-war agenda
of President Franklin Roosevelt, including Lend-Lease aid to a dying Britain and
resistance to Nazi hegemony.
Chris Joyce is a second-career writer (version 2.0), after investing his first thirty
professional years as a CFO. He appreciates the freedom that fiction allows, after
many years of working with financial facts. He lives in Northern Virginia.
Father Land is his second novel.
Washington, D.C.
Reverend Charles Adams Trace, WWI veteran and well known pastor of the capital’s
Good Shepherd Church, becomes the de- facto spokesman for the swelling American anti-war
front. He uses his pulpit and national radio popularity to exhort his growing flock
to keep America out of the looming European war.
