{"product_id":"the-watchman-dan-hall-9798251475982","title":"The Watchman","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn September 1944, nearly ten thousand Allied soldiers dropped into the Netherlands. Thousands never came back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plan was called \u003cb\u003eMarket Garden\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eThe intelligence said it would work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe intelligence was wrong-and someone made sure of it.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Watchman\u003c\/b\u003e is not a spy thriller of chases and gunfire. It is a novel about the real work of espionage: how intelligence is collected under cover, how a false identity is built until it fits better than your own name, how an analyst reads four versions of the same document and finds the leak, how a man can sit across a dinner table from a traitor, watch him pour the wine, and give nothing away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of the story is a darker possibility: that a trusted man inside British intelligence built a pipeline from the planning rooms of London to Moscow, and from Moscow to the desks of the enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot a German agent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Soviet one.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ally shaping the end of the war, ensuring that when Europe was redrawn, it would be redrawn in Moscow's favor-with the dead at Arnhem part of the cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilt inside the real history of Operation North Pole, the Englandspiel, and the disaster at Arnhem Bridge, \u003cb\u003eThe Watchman\u003c\/b\u003e is a novel for readers who want espionage to feel true: disciplined, human, bureaucratic, and lethal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is what intelligence looks like from the inside.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthenticity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe real work of espionage: cover identities, coded transmissions, dead drops, analysis, and silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBetrayal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA trusted insider. A hidden pipeline. A war shaped as much by information as by armies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRooted in the real architecture of Operation North Pole, the Englandspiel, and Arnhem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDan Hall writes historical intelligence fiction grounded in real espionage history, institutional failure, and the human cost of information in wartime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dan Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798251475982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d","brand":"Dan Hall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172546781439,"sku":"9798251475982","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-watchman-dan-hall-9798251475982","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}