Language: English

FIC006000  –  Fiction / Espionage

HIS014000  –  History / Europe / Germany

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Berlin 1944. Even as the American and British Armies were invading Germany from the West and Soviet troops from the East, rapidly closing in upon the shattered capital of Berlin, the Third Reich's Nazi leaders refused to surrender and unleashed a desperate plan of survival designed to bring them ultimate victory. One man alone, Jaime Wellington Arantes, stood between the Nazis and success. The handsome and elegant heir to a great banking dynasty and vast fortune, Arantes was a fabled international playboy, who appeared loyal to Nazi Germany, but all along was in reality the most effective secret agent the Allies ever had. A dedicated anti-Nazi determined to bring down the Third Reich whatever the risk or personal cost to himself. With the war raging savagely on all fronts, and Berlin under around-the-clock bombardment, Jaime Wellington Arantes battled against time and the Soviet Union's most deadly spy-master to uncover the one missing document - the key to the grandest prize of all and the Third Reich's ace-in-the-hole in a lethal game in which no one could be trusted and love was the most dangerous game of all.

Barth Jules Sussman

Over the past several decades Barth Jules Sussman has lived and worked as an author and screenwriter in London, Paris, Rome, Cannes, Hollywood, Ibiza and Florida. He is the author of such historical novels as Shanghai and The Crooked Cross (New American Library/Signet Books); the western thriller L'Homme au Boulet Rouge (editions Gallimard-Paris) - (title in Germany- Der Mann mit der roten Kugel); the screwball black comedy novel Save Me Cosmos Black; Muggy The Happy Pug children's picture book series (Hachette Jeunesse-Paris) as well as the Muggy CD-ROM coloring book (Muggy Press) which were created along with his late wife Jen Sussman. Barth Jules Sussman has written over a twenty original screenplays, including The Stranger & The Gunfighter (AKA Blood Money) starring Lee Van Cleef and Night Games directed by Roger Vadim; The Zaharoff Dossier; Charleston & Savannah. A number of Barth Jules Sussman's scripts have been either purchased or produced by Columbia Pictures;Avco-Embassy; Dino DeLaurentiis; Carlo Ponti; Sir Run Run Shaw and Raymond Chow amongst others.