The period of the 1930’s and the war years of 1939 to 1945, to this day, still produce multitudes of histories, stories, biographies, and memoirs. The availability of once secret documents from the archives of Great Britain, the United States and other countries involved in the conflict have proved to be a trove of fascinating facts and information. Writing The Torch Betrayal, the first in a series of novels that feature OSS Agent Conor Thorn, allowed me to immerse myself in the cataclysmic, world-shaping event of World War II — a subject that has fascinated me since my youth.