Hector Lassiter, the larger-than-life novelist/screenwriter — “the man who lives what he writes and writes what he lives” — returns in an epic novel pitting him against a sinister German filmmaker.

World War II: The last good fight. Hector’s activities against the Axis powers have become the stuff of legend and myth. The truth behind Hector’s very private war against the Nazis is at last revealed in Roll the Credits.

In his own words, Hector confides the secret history of his clandestine campaigns in the European theatre. A chilling tale touching on the birth of film noir and its bloody roots in German silent film-era cinema.

The 1940s: Hector is smuggling expatriate literary icons Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas from occupied Paris to the “Free Zone” when he crosses Werner Höttl, a German filmmaker and Hitler acolyte Hector encountered during the First World War. Höttl is supporting the efforts of the notorious Klaus Barbie to exterminate the French resistance. Aided by a beautiful OSS operative and a two-fisted Irish cop-turned-Army intelligence officer, Hector takes on the impossible mission of smuggling a hard-hunted Jewish orphan from France while pursued by the might of Germany’s occupying army.

Roll the Credits represents the apex of the Hector Lassiter series: a thundering epic of love, friendship, hatred and betrayal. A high-stakes’ chase extending from decadent Berlin to occupied France; from post-war Hollywood to the steaming jungles of Brazil.

All rights available ex: English N/A: St. Martin’s Press / Minotaur (2010)