Interregnum is a triple-decker alternative history, thriller, and literary cryptogram.

Think The Name of the Rose, SS-GB, The Man in The High Castle and The Crown rolled into one read.

1946. Britain is occupied by Nazi Germany. All seems lost—until the February Rising sees off Hitler. The Fuhrer's death triggers a struggle for power among the Nazis, revolt across the Occupied Continent, and schism in the Oval Office in Washington.

Caught in this maelstrom are the teenage princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. For Churchill, what price the lives of the two women, first and second in line to the throne, weighed against the threat of an atom bomb poised to destroy New York?

A Tolstoyan cast includes the princesses , their uncle Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson, President Truman, the Kennedy family and sundry Air Chief Marshals, Field Marshals and First Sea Lords... There's also an astonishing and unforgettable walk on part: the ironic footnotes.

As to the plot, this literary Ludo (or Game of Thrones) keeps its readers guessing until the very last word.

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