Description

In 1943, halfway through World War II, OSS Captain Max Adler is sent to Rome to find an Italian nuclear physicist and persuade him to go to America. SS-Colonel Heinrich Schmidt is directed by the Nazi high-command to stop Max from accomplishing that mission. The Germans want the physicist as much as the Allies.Enter the beautiful British MI6 agent, Sophie Norcross. Will Sophie's Italian connections help Max find the scientist or will she be a major distraction?From opposite sides of the world, two men are intricately linked: one, a Jew from Chicago, the other a Nazi officer. Starting in Berlin in 1936 and ending in Rome seven years later, these two soldiers fight a personal war that will, in the end, have only one winner.