Get reacquainted with Liam Devlin - scholar, poet, gunman, IRA soldier. Colonel Kurt Steiner, the German paratroop officer gunned down during his abortive assassination attempt on Churchill, has survived and is a secret prisoner in the Tower of London. Devlin, on the run from Nazi Germany, languishes in Lisbon in the hope he may obtain passage to America. He is approached by General Walter Schellenberg of the SS with a startling challenge: rescue Steiner from the Tower, return with him to Germany and bring about the most startling coup of the entire war. But first, Devlin must put his head in the noose and return to Berlin to face again his most hated adversary - Heinrich Himmler.