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It is 1929. At home, economic depression and dust storms ravage America, and abroad the goose step of Nazism is intensifying. Widespread fear of the "other" has reached a fever pitch. Against this tumultuous backdrop, two families share the spotlight in this sweeping saga: the Himelbaums of Poland and the Browns of Iowa. All Harry Himelbaum wants is to live somewhere happy and to send for the wife and child he must deny having.

Journey to an unnamed mountainous country in central Europe at the end of the Great War. Enter Citizen Orlov, a simple fishmonger and an honest, upright citizen, who stumbles into the Ministry of Security, and consequently a hidden world of espionage and secrecy. His first assignment? To safeguard the King when he visits the scenic town of Kufzig. But Orlov soon discovers that his ministry handler, the alluring but-couldn’t-possibly-be-a-femme-fatale Agent Zelle, is planning not to protect the King but to assassinate him.

A battle rages for the Soul of America … In the first pages, readers are placed amid a terrorist attack in Chicago and the planning of more attacks in the Homeland on a massive scale. Congress is ready to sell-out and cave to terrorist demands. Threats from the sky are looming, and a strike on Israel is imminent. How will America deal with this new axis of evil? Will they suffer the same fate as Israel in the hands of the Romans? Are we on the brink of the apocalypse prophesied more than 2,500 years ago? In this celestial chess game, people with vastly different agendas plan their next move. One side seeks to control by cunning, passion and deception. The other seeks to give people the Truth. An age-old spiritual war is taking physical dimensions. 7,000 miles from Washington D.C., in Tehran, Iran, the evilest of terrorist attacks is in the final stages of preparation. The real battle rages for people’s hearts and minds. Light versus dark, good versus evil and no setting is more perfect than modern-day America.

Matt Helm, one-time special agent for the American government during the Second World War, has left behind his violent past to raise a family in Santa Fe, New Mexico. When a former colleague turns rogue and kidnaps his daughter, Helm is forced to return to his former life as a deadly and relentless assassin.