{"product_id":"9781504021968","title":"Stranger at the Gates","description":"\u003cb\u003eLouise de Bernard’s long-ago past in Nazi-occupied France comes back to haunt her when a woman shows up on her doorstep demanding payback \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e On a tranquil tree-lined street in Paris, a woman exits a taxi. She has come from Bonn, Germany, on a mission of desperation and revenge. And in a house on the Rue de Varenne, a wife and mother is about to relive the past she thought she’d left far behind.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In 1944, in Nazi-occupied France, circumstances forced Jean de Bernard and his wife to put up a German officer at their isolated chateau in St. Blaize. The American-born Louise de Bernard despised Major Heinz Minden—and her husband even more for collaborating with the Germans when their tanks first rumbled through their centuries-old village. Into this seething hotbed of betrayal and brutality, Roger Savage arrives. The undercover Allied agent recruits Louise to help him destroy a lethal nerve gas the Germans are secretly manufacturing nearby. But now a high-ranking Nazi general is dead, and an entire village is about to be punished in the most merciless and horrifying way.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Culminating in post-war Germany as an SS officer prepares to stand trial for wartime atrocities, \u003ci\u003eStranger at the Gates \u003c\/i\u003eis a spine-tingling page-turner about family and sacrifice, loyalty and love, and how ordinary people can become heroes.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Open Road Media Mystery \u0026 Thriller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131408597232,"sku":"9781504021968","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504021968_p0.jpg?v=1763711300","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504021968","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}