It was 1953, and nothing could shake William Denningโs resolve to leave the army and return to the States. Nothing, except one of the largest diamond hauls everโwhich, in the wrong hands, on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, was a potentially lethal force.
In a small village in the Swiss mountains, Denning discovered that there was not only a jewelry robbery at stake. In the ruthless world of espionage and international conspiracy his adversaries were the most unlikely peopleโand the most dangerous.
Helen MacInnes (1907โ1985) was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels. Dubbed โthe queen of spy writers,โ her books have sold more than twenty-five million copies in the United States alone and have been translated into over twenty-two languages. Several of her books have been adapted into films, such as Above Suspicion (1943), with Joan Crawford, and The Salzburg Connection (1972).
Donald Corren is an audiobook narrator and a New York actor with leading credits on and Off-Broadway, as well as numerous television appearances. On Broadway, he costarred with Judy Kaye in the critically acclaimed production of Souvenir, and replaced Harvey Fierstein in the seminal production of Torch Song Trilogy. His Off-Broadway appearances include The Soap Myth, Dietrich & Chevalier, The Last Sunday in June, Stephen Sondheimโs Saturday Night, and the original New York production of Tomfoolery. His television credits include eight seasons as forensic tech Medill on NBCโs Law & Order, as well as his current role as Dr. Kurian on Syfyโs Z Nation.