The Linden Tree

0245, 6 December 1941. USS Swordfish spots the Japanese strike force 600 miles from Pearl Harbor. In this alternative history adventure, Japan cancels the attack, preventing U.S. entry into the war. Free from American interference, Hitler's scientists perfect an operational atomic bomb. Demonstrating this newfound power, Germany obliterates a remote British village thus blackmailing Britain into an armistice and forcing America to remain neutral. Undeterred, British Intelligence must ferret out Germany’s atomic resources and destroy them. AGATHA, the stunning widow of a downed RAF pilot and superlative field agent in her cover as a neutral Swiss socialite in Berlin, becomes romantically involved with Luftwaffe General Peter von Zimmermann, pilot of the atomic attack, in hopes of gaining actionable intelligence. Discovering the atomic program’s location, she leads an assault on the facility, but the Germans still have three operational bombs. Enraged, Hitler orders a strike on Moscow. Zimmermann, despite his confliction over Nazi tyranny, pilots the mission flying a prototype strategic bomber nicknamed "The Linden Tree."

S.D.M. Carpenter is a retired U.S. Navy Captain and Professor Emeritus of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island where he also served as Command Historian and Department Chair. He holds Doctorate and Master’s degrees in History, specializing in British military and naval history, the War of American Independence, and the 20th-century world wars. Widely published on the British Civil Wars, the American Revolution, and World Wars I and II, Professor Carpenter uses his background as an historian to craft an alternative history novel of espionage, romance, and intrigue as the British attempt to counter the German atomic weapons program. He is also the author of the Resurrection of ANTIMONY and Genesis of ANTIMONY action-adventure, espionage, historical fiction thrillers set in World Wars I and II. He lives in Rhode Island with wife Linda.