A New York Times Bestselling Author From the acclaimed "grandmaster" of espionage (Boston Globe) comes the taut? suspenseful story of an operation that ? with the help of FDR?s secret operatives ? will determine Europe?s fate in the coming world war. New York City? 1938. Gregorio D?Alba? a minor noble descended from the Spanish Bourbons? awaits passage on a freighter to Paris after failing to convince American oil companies to support the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. The stakes quickly escalate when D?Alba undertakes a mission to infiltrate the highest levels of the Spanish government? and to determine the alliances of his country and forever alter the course of the coming world war.