The Betrayer's Choice: Revised Edition

Haarlem, 1941. A sixteen-year-old boy arrives in an occupied city with a mission and a belief in the framework that built him.He has been trained by the Hitler Youth since he was ten years old. He knows how to follow someone without being seen, how to observe without being noticed, how to stay calm when everything around him isn't. His father has a posting with the Sicherheitspolizei. His handler has a name for what Willem is: an asset.He is sent to infiltrate the Dutch Resistance. To find names. To report.He finds Hannie Schaft instead — and a canal bench, and two cups of ersatz coffee, and a question she asks him on the first morning that he spends the rest of the book trying to answer.Tell me something true.Over eight months, Willem runs packages, maps railway depots, and files reports that get thinner with each passing week. The girls he was sent to expose never fully trust him. They are right not to. And yet the choices accumulate — quietly, in one direction — until they become something he has to live with for the rest of his life.The Betrayer's Choice is the story of eight months, three girls, two sides, and one boy who belongs completely to neither. Based on the true history of Hannie Schaft and the Oversteegen sisters — among the most courageous figures of the Dutch Resistance — it is a novel about the small choices that become, over time, everything you are.ALAN BEST is a U.S. Navy veteran, author, and podcaster based in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the host of WWII Unwound and the founder of Best Story Publishing Company.beststorypublishing.comNon-Fiction / World War II History Read more