Mrs. Wallenberg: a Holocaust romance

In his latest Holocaust novel, Dolan heats up one of the great adventure tales of all time by unearthing a scorching love affair long hidden. History and sex… in its pages you'll learn things about both you likely never knew.

The year is 1944, the place Budapest during the Nazi slaughter of Hungary's Jews. Stockholm rushes the thirty-two-year-old Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg to the city on a desperate mission to try and slow the carnage.

His compassionate courage lights a fire in a young interpreter at his country’s embassy, the as feisty as she is gorgeous Berber Smit. Fifty years after events, it's she who narrates the book.

Soon both are as in love and lust as an NC-17 Romeo and Juliet, but their idyll is tarnished by the mounting danger Raoul faces from the SS murderers. Berber can only pray the liberating Russians fight their way to Budapest before the lovers' dream of a future together is shattered.

Ironically, when it does show, the Red Army brings with it a calamity the pair have failed to foresee, propelling her on a life-threatening mission of her own….

If you're the kind of reader who likes a rousing historical thriller intelligently told; a romance peppered with sex as sex could be, should be; a scrappy heroine boasting the brains to match her beauty—don't walk to get your copy of Mrs. Wallenberg, run! As Berber herself says in its opening sentence, here's a story "you won’t soon be forgetting."