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Colonel Kurt Steiner, the brilliant and compassionate German paratroop officer believed to have been shot dead during his abortive assassination attempt on the Prime Minister, actually survives his wounds and is spirited away to the Tower of London, where he is held a secret prisoner. When word of Steiner's whereabouts reaches Germany, dreaded Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler arranges a seemingly honorable scenario: the resuce of Steiner from the Tower and his triumphant return to the Fatherland. But Himmler has less than a hero's welcome ready for the man who failed to carry out what Himmler hoped would be the greatest coup of the wr. And the only man capable of meeting such a seemingly impossible challenge? Liam Devlin: IRA gunman, poet and scholar, whose infamously legendary feats of bravery and daring never cease to amaze those who seek his assistance. Brigadier Dougal Munro of British Intelligence, as devious and cold-hearted as any Nazi counterpart, devises a deadly game and cat and mouse, but he meets his match in General Walter Schellenberg, a brilliant soldier who is no Nazi, appointed by Himmler to mastermid the rescue attempt. With the help of old friend and fellow IRA member Michael Ryan and his gentle and lovely neice Mary, Nazi sympathizers Sir Maxwell and Lavinia Shaw, and American fighter pilot Asa Vaughan who fought for the Finns against Russia but now finds himself trapped in the George Washington Legion of the SS, the devilishly cunning Devlin perpares to find and rescue Steiner - whose fate as a German hero may be even more dangerous than as a prisoner of war. And when an unexpectedly and truly deadly conspiracy emerges as Himmler's real plans bubble to the surface, it's up tp Devlin and Steiner to aid Schellenberg in preventing his country and the rest of the world from falling into the hands of a man even more insane and twisted than the Fuhrer. |
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