Stalk The Hunter by Mitchell Wilson

The author of Footsteps Behind Her returns with this Inner Sanctum mystery of espionage and suspense.

Young American-born Kit Gruenholz grew up in Czechoslovakia with a slight mitteleuropa accent. Heavily involved with organizing anti-Nazi resistance, she escaped to New York on a forged passport and is now working at a museum advising the music department. It's there she meets charismatic British art expert Paul Campbell, who curates a show of paintings rescued from Prague and Vienna days or minutes before German occupation. They become close until her glowing aura of enjoyment is torn away when he violently slaps her face, revealing he is the ringleader of the enemy forces. He knows her one political goal is to protect Anna Mahler, the head of the underground anti-Nazi movement, and that Kit has inadvertently given him her secret location! Fearing exile from her own party, the enraged Kit has one option—to expose and kill Paul Campbell. Nothing exists after that. With reflex action, she tracks Paul to his Long Island mansion, enters, and shoots him in the back of the head—but it is not Paul she kills.

Her only friend is US Army Captain Dan Shay, whom she once knew in Copenhagen. She must allay her lingering fears that he is also an enemy agent, as she needs his help to squash Paul and his legion of high-powered Nazis watching her every move - for they could turn the tables and have her arrested as an unregistered enemy alien at any moment.

German agents have infiltrated the powers in America, and they fight a deadly game. A breathless chase ensues through Long Island after the pair escape Paul's mansion, where Nazis held Kit and Dan captive, with no intention of letting them go alive. Kit shows constant courage as one misstep could affect millions of others.

Mitchell Wilson was a Columbia University physicist turned writer, and this is much more dangerous than his previous thriller Footsteps Behind Her. Well worth a read.

1943 / Hardcover / 275 pages.

My other review for Mitchell Wilson:

Footsteps Behind Her