From #1 New York Times-bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin comes a
dramatic thriller in the Clandestine Operations series about the Cold
War, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency--and a new breed of
warrior.
January, 1946 Two WACs leave an officers' club in Munich, and four
Soviet NKGB agents kidnap them at knifepoint in the parking lot and
shove them in the back of an ambulance. That is the agents' first
mistake, and their last. One of the WACs, a blonde woman improbably
named Claudette Colbert, works for the new Directorate of Central
Intelligence, and three of the men end up dead and the fourth wounded.
The "incident," however, will send shock waves rippling up and down the
line, and have major repercussions not only for Claudette, but for her
boss, James Cronley, Chief DCI-Europe, and for everybody involved in
their still-evolving enterprise. For, though the Germans may have been
defeated, Cronley and his company are on the front lines of an entirely
different kind of war now. The enemy has changed, the rules have
changed--and the stakes have never been higher.