An American spymaster in Berne. A German officer in Paris with his pregnant lover who is playing her own dangerous game against the occupiers. A Frenchwoman risking everything on the Nazi-patrolled border between France and Switzerland.

The Berne Train follows three distinct geographic paths as its characters move toward each other across the 31 days of July 1944: through the anxious weeks preceding the attempt on Hitler’s life, and into the maelstrom of violence that erupted in its aftermath.

Physical geography, though, is only the beginning. The Berne Train travels the paths of the human heart in conflict: with itself, with others, and with the obligations imposed by honor and by love. This is a story set in a time when desperate choices carried devastating consequences and loss was just a way of life, and no matter who you were or what you fought for, a traditional “happy ending” was simply impossible.