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The New York Times bestselling author returns with a tale as riveting and suspenseful as any thriller: the true story of the Nazi plot to kill the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. during World War II.The mission: to kill the three most important and heavily guarded men in the world.The assassins: a specially trained team headed by the killer known as The Most Dangerous Man in Europe.The stakes: nothing less than the future of the Western world.The year is 1943 and the three Allied leaders - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin - are meeting for the first time at a top-secret conference in Tehran. But the Nazis have learned about the meeting and Hitler sees it as his last chance to turn the tide. Although the war is undoubtedly lost, the Germans believe that perhaps a new set of Allied leaders might be willing to make a more reasonable peace in its aftermath.
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Howard Blum is the author of New York Times bestsellers including Night of the Assassins, In the Enemy's House, The Last Goodnight, Dark Invasion, the Edgar Award-winner American Lightning, as well as Wanted!, The Gold Exodus, Gangland, and The Floor of Heaven. Blum is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. While at the New York Times, he was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He is the father of three children, and lives in Connecticut. Film rights have been bought by Columbia Pictures to Howard's most recent book, The Last Goodnight, and previous titles.Get in touch!Website: www.HowardBlum.comEmail: Howard@HowardBlum.comFacebook: Like Howard Blum on FacebookTwitter: @HowardBlum and @FloorOfHeaven
