’Open a Jack Higgins novel and you’ll encounter a master craftsman at the peak of his powers...first-rate tales of intrigue, suspense and full-on action’

--SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

It’s 1963 and the eve of Kennedy’s historic visit to Berlin, but on the red side of the wall, Ulbricht’s commissars plan their own deadly campaign.

Inside the impregnable fortress of Schloss Neustadt, father Sean Conlin, survivor of Dachau and lifelong apostle of human freedom, is defying his captors their ultimate goal. Whilst the world is watching they intend to make him confess to being a CIA hireling.

The West is determined to save him. In a race against time, a small band of intrepid men set out on a rescue mission that could sway the course of history...