First hardcover printing of the third volume of the Men at War trilogy,
begun with The Last Heroes (1997) and The Secret Warriors (1999), both
rousingly well received reprints of soft cover originals published
under the pseudonym Alex Baldwin. The Last Heroes tells of Wild Bill Donovan's newly formed Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and how it learns about uranium ore in the Belgian Congo, vital to building the atomic bomb. In The Secret Warriors, the OSS has to drop agents into the Belgian Congo and smuggle out ore while avoiding German agents.
Now, Donovan gets more involved with General Leslie Groves's supervision of building the A-bomb while simultaneously fighting off
rival intelligence chiefs who dont need to know about the bomb.
Meantime, Donovans agents in Morocco, led by Second Lieutenant Eric Fulmar, are after two leading defectors; and meanwhile in England,
Major Richard Canidy prepares to suck the secrets of the incredible new jet engine, as well as of the V-2 rocket bomb, out of Germany. Also on hand is a fated pilot, Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.