Ben Zachary press secretary to the Vice-President of the United States, is a haunted man. He can never escape the appalling memory of the massacre of Malmedy when the Nazi butcher Klaus Kraft ordered the cold-blooded annihilation of his fellow comrades. Zachary's nightmare becomes a grim reality when he discovers that Kraft is still alive and working for the U.S. Government on a new super-weapon, the Universal Nuclear Trigger. This is a device that could save the world or destroy it. What are Kraft's motives in working on it? Faced with a wall of official silence, Zachary is prepared to take the matter into his own hands. His investigations lead him into very dangerous territory where it is not just a group of panicking prisoners-of-war whose lives are threatened - it is the very future of mankind. A BERNARD GEIS ASSOCIATES BOOK
Joseph E. Persico was the author of Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage; Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918–World War I and Its Violent Climax; Piercing the Reich; and Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial, which was made into a television docudrama. He also collaborated with Colin Powell on his autobiography, My American Journey. He lives in Guilderland, New York.