One More Hour of Daylight

**One More Hour of Daylight**

*A breathless chase through occupied France and over the Pyrenees — where the only thing more dangerous than the enemy is the past. *

Essex, September 1939. A German pilot comes down by parachute in the grey dawn of an English field. He is wounded, frightened, and a long way from home. Derrick Sedgley, a seventeen-year-old boy, finds him, makes him a promise, and breaks it before morning.

Four years later, the promise is still unpaid.

**France, Germany, 1943. **

Derrick is now an SOE operative working with the resistance in occupied Europe, organising operations and moving agents and downed airmen south through France towards the Spanish border. When a mission goes wrong in Hamburg, he finds himself running with Lotte Braun — a woman who knows the risks and carries secrets that change everything about the chase behind them.

The SS are closing in. Safe houses are being raided. The resistance network is under pressure, and the corridor south is compromised. And somewhere behind the pursuit, driving it forward with quiet and terrible patience, is a man who has been waiting for this moment for four years.

He is not driven by ideology. He is not driven by duty.

He is driven by a promise broken in the dark, and he remembers Derrick's face.

**From Lyon to Hamburg. From Switzerland to the mountains of Spain. **

The Pyrenees do not care about any of them. The crossings are high, cold, and unforgiving, and the mountain takes what it takes without ceremony. But what is waiting on the other side of the highest point is not safety. It is the reckoning that has been coming since an Essex field in September 1939.

Four years. One broken promise. And a woman who must choose between the man she loves and the brother she cannot save.

One More Hour of Daylight is a novel about what we owe the people we betray and how long a debt can follow a man before it catches up with him.

**For readers of Ken Follett, Sebastian Faulks and Alan Furst. **