The war-weary American captain faces a German nation in ruins and a daunting assignment on the border between Germany and France. He befriends a French Underground fighter and together they stumble upon a stolen Nazi treasure and uncover a conspiracy at the highest levels on both sides of the conflict. It also brings mortal danger to themselves. The lovely diplomat has lived through her own personal battle during the war years. She now guardedly lets down some inner barriers to reach out to the bands of German children left impoverished by the war. And then the two friends discover their common interest in her.
With Stalin on the move to build a Russian empire that runs from the Arctic Circle to the Indian Ocean, Jake and Sally Burnes are dispatched to an exotic new location outside the sphere of traditional American interests: Istanbul.
Colonel Jake Burnes had never imagined himself a spy. But the acclaim he won for rescuing a French Resistance hero and bringing a traitor to justice lead to a more clandestine assignment.
A single cry from a young refugee shattered Pierre's sorrowful resignation over the fate of his twin brother. Could it be that Patrique, a leader in the French Resistance, had survived an enemy ambush?
