June 26, 1963 - President Kennedy's triumphant visit to the divided city of Berlin. With the aid of a renegade American, East German Intelligence has launched a desperate plot that could trigger catastrophe for the free worl. Only a team of Allied operatives comprised of six monks, an American priest, a British major, and a young woman doctor who has played into Communist hands have any hope of saving the West.
Jack Higgins is the author of the action-adventure thrillers Night of the Fox, Luciano's Luck, and The Year of the Tiger, as well as the mega-best-selling the Eagle has landed, Which became a major motion picture. He also writes under the pen names of Martin Fallon, Hugh Marlwe, and James Graham
