The Night Letter

The Night Letter is a 1978 book by Paul Spike, with a double-layered structure: an anti-Nazi spy thriller on the background of the early part of the Second World War, and an exposure of cynical and machiavellian maneuverings in the American corridors of power. The book belongs to the subgenre of secret history - i.e. with a plot in which real historical figures play a substantial part, doing things which are the author's invention but which supposedly (for reasons given in the plot) remained secret and did not come to the knowledge of the public. In the book, a British doctor meets in 1936 with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who is unaware that the doctor is a Nazi sympathizer. The visitor manages to secretly photograph the President in a compromising position with his secretary, Missy LeHand.