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In the months following Germany’s and Japan’s surrenders in October 1945, the Office of Strategic Services assigns Cletus Frade and his colleagues a perilous mission: safeguard a clandestine U.S. collaboration with Germany that seeks intelligence on Soviet infiltrators within America’s atomic bomb project. The story follows their tense efforts to keep the operation covert while the world reels from the war’s aftermath.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: William E. Butterworth III
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