They have hired a professional killer to assassinate America's most controversial World War II general. The plans are meticulous..... flawless.
But intelligence agents are puzzled by some seemingly unrelated events - the murder of an American OSS officer in Germany, a German workman found in The Russian zone with eighteen hundred American dollars, and the disappearance of a young newspaper correspondent. Suddenly the pieces of the startling conspiracy begin to fit together.
The deadly race is on - agents and counteragents pitted against time - and an ingenious assassin, so determined to keep his deadly rendezvous that even the men who have hired him can no longer stop him.
Frederick William Nolan is an English editor and writer, mostly known as Frederick Nolan, but also using the pen names Donald Severn, Daniel Rockfern, Christine McGuire and Frederick H. Christian.
He was educated in Liverpool and Aberaeron, Wales. At the age of twenty one, he began the researches that established him as one of England's leading authorities on the American West. In 1954 he was co-founder of The English Westerners' Society.