Synopsis of the Best-Selling Novel Ever !!! "To Catch a King"

Book Title : To Catch a King
Author : Harry Patterson
Publisher : Hutchinson, London
Date Publisher : 1979 Number of Pages: 222 pages
Genre : Legend

This novel tells about a Jewish girl who named Fraulin Hannah Winter. She born in Berlin but when she was a child her father brought her to New York. She was a singer. The other main character is Walter Schellenberg. He was a major-general of police in Lisbon. The story based on history of World War II 1940. The issue of this novel is about a plan to kidnapping David or usually called as The Duke of Windsor. He was a major-general in France who wanted to be a governor of Bahamas.

The interesting point in this novel is Hannah who only an ordinary person had to against a major-general of police to save The Duke. Actually she was not an agent, but her uncle who he was a Russia Agent needed her helping to send a report of kidnapping plan to The Duke in France. But the part that made me confusing in this novel is about the politic problem between Nazi Party and other capital in Europe. Also, I dislike with the part when her uncle, Max Winter, was joined her in this problem. Hannah as an ordinary person, it would be dangerous to her. In my opinion if I could change the story, Max Winter must solved this problem professionally. He could send the report with other Russia Agent, not Hannah.

I don’t have any experience that related with this story. But I ever read an article about World War II. From this novel I can imagine how their life is. Many Jew people had been killed in Holocaust tragedy. It’s very frightened. While I was reading this novel, I was excited with how Hannah struggling to help his uncle. Although his uncle had been kill and dead, she still struggle to send the report.