From the best-selling author of The Eagle Has Landed comes a heart-stopping thriller set in the dark, violent days of World War II. In 1943, a British intelligence operative, two American Rangers, one extraordinary woman, and American Lucky Luciano parachute into Nazi-occupied Sicily. Their dangerous mission: to persuade the Don to rally the people of Sicily to run the Axis forces off the Island and pave the way for the Allied invasion of Italy.

Jack Higgins is the author of the action-adventure thrillers Night of the Fox, Luciano's Luck, and The Year of the Tiger, as well as the mega-best-selling the Eagle has landed, Which became a major motion picture. He also writes under the pen names of Martin Fallon, Hugh Marlwe, and James Graham