Berlin, 19 April, 1940: Max Tanner, foreign correspondent with an American news media organization, arrives in the Nazi capital. His arrival coincides with a period known as the ‘Phoney War,’ or ‘Sitzkrieg’ as it is known in Germany. A Wehrmacht attack on France and the Low Countries has yet to take place, and meantime the two top intelligence organizations at the heart of Nazi Germany are caught in a web of intrigue and deception.
A high-ranking group of Wehrmacht and Kriegsmarine officers, known as ‘The Black Orchestra’, is determined to see Hitler’s conquest of Europe fail. Plans are made to work with the Allies to unseat the man who has promised Germany a ‘Thousand-Year Reich’. But what if Allied knowledge of the impending attack on France and Belgium through the Ardennes fails to halt Hitler’s war machine? Is there another way to avoid the disaster which must inevitably befall Germany?
Tanner is not only a journalist. He is also an agent for a newly-formed American intelligence organization which will later became known as the OSS. Finding himself in the middle of a plot to assassinate the Führer, a course of action involving personal as well as professional relationships, Tanner realizes his options are all not as clear cut as they first appear ...
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