On cover: A look at the fascinating tools of the espionage trade--what they are, how they work and who uses them-from the simple hand gun to the KH-11 satellite.
Presents accounts of Allied and Axis intelligence throughout World War II, telling stories of patriotism and treachery, spies, codes, civilian bravado, and other dangerous escapades.
In the opening days of World War II, Captain Alexander de Milja, a member of the Polish resistance movement, is given the job of smuggling the national gold reserve to the exiled government.
U.S. Marine captain Shane Schofield, call-sign Scarecrow, finds himself pursued by a notorious bounty hunter after a cabal of the world's richest humans identifies him as one of fifteen people with reflexes fast enough to defuse the nuclear weapons they plan to unleash on the world.
Pitted against a secretive terrorist group that has seized control of an island in the Arctic, Marine captain Shane Schofield and his crew are ordered by the president to stop the organization's zealous plot to destroy the planet.
