The master of labyrinthine plot twists and careening literary rides returns with an espionage thriller about one man's effort to save the free world during the height of Nazi power. In 1940, the Nazis are occupying France, Britain is enduring the Blitz and is under the threat of invasion, America is neutral, and Russia is uneasily allied with Germany. Stephen Metcalfe, the younger son of a prominent American family, is a well-known man-about-town in occupied Paris - and a minor asset in U.S. secret intelligence forces. When ...
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The master of labyrinthine plot twists and careening literary rides returns with an espionage thriller about one man's effort to save the free world during the height of Nazi power. In 1940, the Nazis are occupying France, Britain is enduring the Blitz and is under the threat of invasion, America is neutral, and Russia is uneasily allied with Germany. Stephen Metcalfe, the younger son of a prominent American family, is a well-known man-about-town in occupied Paris - and a minor asset in U.S. secret intelligence forces. When circumstance forces Metcalfe to instigate a bold plan to save what remains of the free world, he must travel to wartime Moscow to find a ballerina who is also his former lover - and risk all he loves and honors.
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