Overview
The Double Traitor is an Edward Phillips Oppenheim thriller built around espionage, loyalty, and the terrifying possibility that a person may be working for more than one side. The title creates the central puzzle immediately.
This title is catalogued in Classics & Literature. Its reading profile is Medium and Moderate, with themes including literature, mystery, politics.
One-Page Summary
The Double Traitor is an Edward Phillips Oppenheim thriller built around espionage, loyalty, and the terrifying possibility that a person may be working for more than one side. The title creates the central puzzle immediately. A traitor can be dangerous; a double traitor is harder to understand because motives become uncertain even for the people who think they know the political game. Oppenheim’s characters move through diplomatic circles and covert networks where information is valuable precisely because it can be hidden. Meetings, documents, friendships, romances, and apparently harmless social encounters may all have political consequences.
The story’s suspense comes from uncertainty. Who is deceiving whom? Is an apparent betrayal genuine or an act within a larger plan? And how long can a secret survive once several governments are interested in it? The novel belongs to an era when international intrigue was becoming a major popular genre, and Oppenheim helped establish its conventions. His world treats politics as a contest of information and nerve rather than open battlefield force. The result is a thriller in which trust itself becomes a weapon.
Key Themes
Literature: This title is tagged with literature as one of its main themes.
Mystery: This title is tagged with mystery as one of its main themes.
Politics: This title is tagged with politics as one of its main themes.