Jack Tully is five days from retirement as head of Section III of the CIA. He is by all appearances an ordinary desk man with little flair for adventure...yet he is the man East Germany's top intelligence agent and defector wants to meet in Paris. Everyone, especially Tully, is puzzled as to why.

So Tully sets out on his last desperate mission-a mission which plunges him back into his own past when, as an undercover agent for the OSS, he was sent into a Nazi POW camp to unravel the mystery of SSG300, Hitler's final and most devastating plan. There, Tully came to know the extremes of sadism and brutality-and the undying passion of the woman who dared to help him.

But how does all this connect to his present mission and the East German spy? Because forty years ago, Tully had made one mistake-a mistake he might not now be able to survive...

"Langley writes in the best adventure tradition of Alistair Maclean."-Publishers Weekly

"Well-knit with surprisingly original twists." - Kirkus Reviews

"An adroit and froceful novel."-Booklist

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