Beneath a Scarlet Sky

One sentence synopsis... An Italian teenager finds himself become the personal driver for one of the Third Reich's most powerful commanders - while spying for the Allies in Milan.

Read it if you like... really wild semi-true stories (the book is a fictionalized account of a true and truly crazy life story of Pino Lella) at the expense of good writing. Would have been better as a non-fiction but from the rumblings of book twitter there's some controversy over how much is fictionalized (think ‘A Million Little Pieces').

Dream casting... Tom Holland was cast as the lead in the adaptation of this book that never happened... perhaps due to the controversy...