Special agent James Cronley Jr. finds that fighting both ex-Nazis and
the Soviet NKGB can lead to strange bedfellows, in the dramatic new
Clandestine Operations novel about the birth of the CIA and the Cold
War.
A month ago, Cronley managed to capture two notorious Nazi war
criminals, but not without leaving some dead bodies and outraged
Austrian police in his wake. He's been lying low ever since, but that
little vacation is about to end. Somebody--Odessa, the NKGB, the
Hungarian Secret Police?--has broken the criminals out of jail, and he
must track them down again.
But there's more to it than that. Evidence has surfaced that in the
war's last gasps, Heinrich Himmler had stashed away a fortune to build a
secret religion, dedicated both to Himmler and to creating the Fourth
Reich. That money is still out there in the hands of Odessa, and that
infamous organization seems to have acquired a surprising--and
troubling--ally.
Cronley is fast finding out that the phrase the enemy of my enemy is my
friend can mean a lot of different things, and that it is not always
clear which people he can trust and which are out to kill him.