Soviet-occupied Lwów, southeastern Poland, July 1944.
Rescued from execution by a squad of ultra-nationalist Ukrainian partisans after he shoots his political officer not-quite-by-accident, seventeen-year-old Red-Army conscript Tolya Korolenko agrees to help assassinate the regional commander of the NKVD. But somebody in the squad is slipping intelligence to the NKVD—and when the partisans find out that Tolya is half-Polish, their suspicions turn on him.
Set during the aftermath of the Volhynia Massacres, Traitor is YA historical fiction in the vein of Ruta Sepetys.
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