The Honest Spy:

The Honest Spy by: Andreas Kollender Translated by: Steve Anderson
Fiction: History, E-book
E-Book Count:7
Book Count:9

This is the next book that I picked out as part of the reading challenge that I am doing this year.  This time I went for the fictionalized account of a true story.  
This book is based on the life of Fritz Kolbe, a German diplomat, who lived with his daughter in South Africa at the start of WWII.  He gets called back to Berlin, and after being told by a friend that they can do more good to stop the craziness of the Nazis from inside, he agrees to leave his daughter (who would not be welcomed in Germany,) and go back.  In Germany he goes from being a diplomat to an office worker and works his way up to being the person that is in charge of destroying important documents, without joining the Nazi party.  Once he gets to this important job, he both sees the horrors happening that even he didn't know about and uses his contacts to become a spy.  He tried to get connected with the British,  but ended up working with the Americans and the OSS (later called the CIA).  
As a spy he shares many important documents and information with the Americans in the hope that it will stop the war and killings quicker.  He even shares the exact location of Hitler's Wolf's Lair, in the hopes that they will bomb it.  (Of course, unlike modern readers of WWII history, he doesn't know about the failed attempts to kill Hitler with a bomb in the Wolf's Lair.)  Both his double life and the horrors of war wear on him and there are many times he is in danger or wants to quit.  The story is ended after the war, but as it is based on real life there are still unanswered questions.