A
single pistol shot in the night, and an attractive young
woman is dead, a suicide. A passing thing in 1931 Munich.
Except the dead woman was Adolf Hitler's niece and mistress,
the lovely Geli Raubal. The pistol was Hitler's. And the
location was Hitler's sumptuous flat.
More than half a century later, despite the facts surrounding
Geli's death, surely no one should care. But western intelligence
learns someone does care. Very much. Both the KGB and a well-financed
neo-Nazi organization. And both are willing to murder to uncover
a long-buried secret connected to Geli's demise. A secret
important enough to torture and kill to find three elderly
Germans.
American Tom Cooper and Englishman Simon Berwick, agents
of U.S. intelligence and British MI6, are given the mission
to find the three before the Russians or the Nazis. Both men
have scores to settle. Both lost their families to terrorist
bombs. They have killed for their countries in the twilight
war of espionage; they will kill again.
More than one person has already died in the desperate race
across Germany. More will die before the search ends in a
blinding snowstorm above Hitler's former residence high on
the Obersalzburg in Bavaria. And the only reward for the agent
who makes a mistake will be a nameless grave.
|
