A World War II spy novel set in Argentina, featuring Cletus Frade, an OSS agent and heir to an oil fortune in Texas. Argentina is crawling with Nazis--their submarines refuel there--and some Nazis are prepared to spy for America in return for favors.

A World War II spy novel about a beautiful Nazi secret agent and her pursuer, a former history professor turned spy catcher. The setting is England, the time just before the D-Day landings. A first novel.

Summer 1943. Two of the Allies' most important plans for winning World War II are at grave risk{u2014}Operation Overlord's invasion of France, and the Manhattan Project's race to build the atomic bomb. A furious FDR turns to OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan{u2014}and Donovan turns to his top agent, Dick Canidy, and his team. In the weeks to come, they must fight not only the enemy in the field{u2014}including figuring out how to sabotage Germany's...

In his own best tradition of "Eye of the Needle" and "The Key to Rebecca, " Follett follows his major bestseller, "Code to Zero, " with a breathtaking novel of suspense set in the most dangerous days of World War II.

“In the first nineteen months of European war, from September 1939 to March of 1941, the island nation of Britain and her allies lost, to U-boat, air, and sea attack, to mines and maritime disaster, one thousand five hundred and ninety-six merchant vessels. It was the job of the Intelligence Division of the Royal Navy to stop it, and so, on the last day of April 1941 . . .”
May 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp...

August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he's in now, standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade's job? To help Frogger escape. Frogger's parents are in Frade's custody in Argentina, because of their involvement in a secret...

This book combines fact and speculation in a fictionalized reconstruction of the events leading up to and including the November 1943 mission to capture Prime Minister Winston Churchill. As the Allied forces slowly begin turning the tide of the war, Hitler vehemently orders the impossible--kidnap Winston Churchill, or kill him. A crack team of commandos led by a disgraced war hero must venture into the heart of England to carry out their mission,...

To kill a stranger is easy; to kill a lover is not. A ruthless German spy, trying to leave Britain with vital information about D-Day, spends time with a young woman and her disabled husband on an isolated island just off the English coast.