The story tells of recruiting a leader for this group who has been captured in a failed undercover assignment for the British army. Moreover, this intrusive text detracts from the ending of the greater tale of the last maneuver Walters imagines for this group of agents, giving the novel a predictable rather than a realistic conclusion. This part of the story intrudes into the primary text only in short and infrequent passages and seems more of an interruption to the main story than a necessary part of telling it.
Within the story of this particular special force comes the story of one of its members' daughters seeking to find out about his work and to clear his name.
They leave reputations as being "traitors" in their wakes. The work of actual undercover agents and spies often goes entirely undetected and such agents often die with no credit, recognition, or even acknowledgement of who they were, even when their accomplishments were important and memorable events. Walters' novel imagines the creation of this unit, creates characters to populate the fictional unit, and involves the unit in a fictional, suspenseful tale of intrigue and double dealings. Their role was to serve in undercover activities such as sabotage where their native English speaking skills could facilitate their undercover functions. At it height, this unit actually consisted of 50 such men. This unit consisted not of Germans, but of British citizens who favored the Nazi cause or who were easily co-oped due to their low intellectual capabilities. In WW II, the Nazi's assembled a unit of soldiers and others to be used as a force against the allies. The Traitor: A Novel by Guy Walters presents one such incredible story: too hard to really believe, yet based on an actual situation in WW II. Some of history’s biggest absurdities and most unlikely events are undeniably actual things that have happened.
Reality is sometimes more incredible and implausible than fiction.
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