As a master storyteller and inventor of the
intriguing premise, Walter Winward has
few peers among contemporary novelists
of adventure and suspense. For his special
province, he has taken the European the-
ater of World War II, meticulously re-
searching his backgrounds and peopling
his novels with good Germans and bad
Nazis, treacherous--as well as brave--
Englishmen and Americans. The Canaris
Fragments is no exception.
The book opens shortly after the war
when Major Otis Quinlan, a newspaper-
man in civilian life, is present following
the capture of the Allied traitor William
Joyce, whose wartime broadcasts from
Berlin under the name Lord Haw-Haw
made him infamous. Under Quinlan s in-
terrogation, joyce mentions two names.
One is Admiral Canaris, former head of
German Intelligence; the other, Oberst-
leutnant Langcnhain, is a complete
mystery.
Six months later Langenhain s name
crops up again, this time as.Quinlan and
American major Ben Hadleigh are ques-
tioning Heinrich Arndt, an ex-Abwehr of-
ficer who served under Canaris. Before he
dies of a heart attack. Arndt also refers to
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