assassination attempts

"A new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler"--.

The sorcerous felines who guard the Gates between worlds, aided by a human child named Arthur Conan Doyle, are called upon to stop Armageddon when they discover that the malfunction of an ancient Gate at Grand Central Station has been deliberately engineered by the evil Lone One who plans to unleash nuclear horror upon the universe.

An expose of the CIA's inner workings in Cuba during the 1950s and 1960s reveals the Agency's efforts to halt opposition to Fidel Castro after the Cuban Revolution and install a CIA-friendly figurehead in Castro's position, documenting the contributions of King Ranch proprietor Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and the mysterious disappearance of Camilo Cienfuegos.

History hangs in the balance as Professor Mikhal Lammeck, a specialist in the history and weaponry of assassins, pits his skills against an unknown killer who has targeted President Franklin Roosevelt in the waning days of World War II.

Former CIA agent Jack Teller's hopes for a quiet retirement are destroyed when he is called to Germany where someone claiming to have key political information claims Jack is needed to stop an international disaster.

Recounts the history of the hidden resistance in Germany during World War II, and the people behind them, from political opponents and soldiers to ordinary citizens.

Military police investigator Earl Grannit, a New York cop in private life, holds the future of World War II on his shoulders when he is charged with finding two German assassins who have infiltrated the Allied troops.

Jack Ryan, having jumped at the offer to join the CIA as a freelance analyst in the early 1980s, quickly finds himself in over his head when he uncovers a KGB plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II.