Henry Carter Hull

Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS find themselves in the midst both political battles and military battles just weeks after Adolf Hitler's suicide, and the risk of another world war involving Stalin becomes apparent.

In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. In his first assignment, he's got seven days to extract a vital piece of information from a Soviet agent, but there are enemies everywhere--and, as Cronley is about to find out, some of them even wear the same uniform he does.

August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he’s in now—standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in the middle of a miserably hot and remote Mississippi prisoner-of-war camp.


Frade’s job? Typical OSS: to help the un-cooperative Frogger escape. Frogger’s...