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March 2002. While the world watches Afghanistan, Jack Noble is in Baghdad, Iraq—on loan from the Marines to the CIA. Supposed to be part of the team, he ends up just a security detail. When he and his partner Bear confront four CIA agents abusing an Iraqi family, they’re arrested within hours. Jack only wanted to finish his service, but his intervention lands him in a conspiracy reaching the highest levels of the U.S. government.

Pierwsza ksiazka Macieja Slomczynskiego wydana po raz pierwszy w 1947. Autor, uczestnik walk na froncie zachodnim Drugiej Wojny Swiatowej, opisuje w formie powiesci sensacyjnej, przygotowania do, oraz sama inwazje wojsk alianckich w Europie 1944 roku. Poznajemy losy ludzi uwiklanych w tajne rozgrywki wywiadów, dzialajacych na terytorium wrogich panstw w przeddzien rozpoczecia operacji Overlord.

Greg Abimbola is many things. He's Black, British and fluent in Russian. He's a snappy dresser, a reasonable teacher, and an unenthusiastic sports fan. But most of all, he's exceptional at keeping secrets—like who he really is, and the things he's done. Determined to keep his head down after helping solve a murder in the school basement, Greg fears a trap when Sergeant Rachel Lev of the Pittsburgh police corners him in his apartment—because his refusal to take credit isn't modesty, it's a survival tactic. But Rachel is there for another matter entirely. She needs his help.

Harry Rose, last of the great American spymasters, has stepped to the helm of the Berlin station in the wake of the Second World War. From deep within a pulverized Germany, he launches his own renegade operation to avert World War III. But there are some within his camp who claim that Harry has finally gone too far, playing the game of nations from the bottom of the deck. Here is an inside story of the nuclear arms race - the politics, the passion, and the sheer lust for power.