Night of the Assassins
The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin
Howard Blum
- "A
- truly
- thrilling
- expose
- of
- the
- previously
- unknown
- Nazi
- assassination
- plot
- that
- could
- have
- changed
- history."
- —
- Edward
- Jay
- Epstein,
- New
- York
- Times
- bestselling
- author
- of
- The
- Assassination
- ChroniclesThe
- 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.
- And
- so
- a
- plan
- is
- devised—code
- name
- Operation
- Long
- Jump—to
- assassinate
- FDR,
- Churchill,
- and
- Stalin.Immediately,
- a
- highly
- trained,
- hand-picked
- team
- of
- Nazi
- commandos
- is
- assembled,
- trained,
- armed
- with
- special
- weapons,
- and
- parachuted
- into
- Iran.
- They
- have
- six
- days
- to
- complete
- the
- daring
- assignment
- before
- the
- statesmen
- will
- return
- home.
- With
- no
- margin
- for
- error
- and
- little
- time
- to
- spare,
- Mike
- Reilly,
- the
- head
- of
- FDR’s
- Secret
- Service
- detail—a
- man
- from
- a
- Montana
- silver
- mining
- town
- who
- describes
- himself
- as
- “an
- Irish
- cop
- with
- more
- muscle
- than
- brains”—must
- overcome
- his
- suspicions
- and
- instincts
- to
- work
- with
- a
- Soviet
- agent
- from
- the
- NKVD
- (the
- precursor
- to
- the
- KGB)
- to
- save
- the
- three
- most
- powerful
- men
- in
- the
- world.Filled
- with
- eight
- pages
- of
- black-and-white
- photographs,
- Night
- of
- the
- Assassins
- is
- a
- suspenseful
- true-life
- tale
- about
- an
- impossible
- mission,
- a
- ticking
- clock,
- and
- one
- man
- who
- stepped
- up
- to
- the
- challenge
- and
- prevented
- a
- world catastrophe.
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