The Hard Way (Monika Ritter #5)

Imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp in southwest Germany, Michael Ritter attempts a daring escape with two other downed American pilots. After being recaptured, Michael is transferred to Colditz, a medieval castle repurposed as a high-security prison camp for incorrigible Allied escapees. But when the Nazi commandant tries to paint him as an informant, Michael will find it’s not just the German guards he needs to be wary of.

Meanwhile, Oliver Strauss is holed up in a small German village after parachuting from the same plane Michael crashed in. When his host, a physically and psychologically damaged comrade from his time as a Wehrmacht soldier on the Eastern Front, begins to display signs of madness, Oliver realizes that his time in hiding may be coming to an abrupt end.

After setting up an escape route out of Germany through Berlin, Monika and Sarah find out Michael and Oliver's whereabouts. The women will part ways to take on separate daring missions to defy both the Gestapo and the prison camp the Nazis call inescapable.