Christine Kuehn was cocooned in the sanctity of a quiet suburban life when a mysterious letter in 1994 pierced that bubble, sending her on a thirty-year quest to discover the truth behind a horrendous family secret kept hidden for half a century. Following a career in journalism, public relations, and nonprofits, Christine now lives is Maryland with her husband, close to their three grown children.

Family of Spies: 

A propul­sive, nev­er-before-told sto­ry of one family’s shock­ing involve­ment as Nazi and Japan­ese spies dur­ing WWII and the piv­otal role they played in the bomb­ing of Pearl Har­bor. The Kuehns, a once promi­nent Berlin fam­i­ly, saw the rise of the Nazis as a way out of the hard times that had befall­en them. When the daugh­ter of the fam­i­ly, Eberhard’s sis­ter and Christine’s Aunt Ruth, met Nazi leader Joseph Goebbells at a par­ty, the two hit it off, and they had an affair. But Ruth had a secret — she was half Jew­ish, and Goebbells found out. Rather than hav­ing Ruth killed, Goebbels instead sent the entire Kuehn fam­i­ly to Hawaii, to work as spies half a world away. There, Christine’s grand­par­ents and her Aunt Ruth estab­lished an intri­cate spy oper­a­tion from their home, and passed secrets to the Japan­ese, lead­ing to the dev­as­tat­ing attack on Pearl Har­bor.

Jump­ing back and forth from Chris­tine dis­cov­er­ing her family’s secret to the untold past of spies in Ger­many, Japan and Hawaii, Fam­i­ly of Spies is fast-paced his­to­ry at its finest, and will rewrite the nar­ra­tive of Decem­ber 7, 1941.