Pursuit Author:James Stewart Thayer A strategy born of desperation: an assassination to end the war. — Only one event can turn the tide. Hitler believes that the death of one man -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- will save Nazi Germany. From a prisoner of war camp near Fort Lewis, Washington, where 50,000 German soldiers are interned, Wehrmacht Captain Kurt Monck -- a ... more »man of frightening resources with ruthless intelligence whose devious determination is sparked by Berlin’s orders via secret channels to escape the camp and head east.
Monck's trail is picked up by U.S. Secret Service agent John Wren, who hunts Monck as the German nears Franklin Roosevelt’s armored train en route to the Democratic Convention in Chicago.
Monck's only aid comes from his reluctant accomplice Margaret Bayerlein, a widow who provokes a haunting triangular relationship. « less