Single-minded ambition, cold Germanic calculation, Hitler's secret favor- these catapulted Reinhard Heydrich to power, and into horrific legend as the obsessed "Hangman" of the Holocaust. But what yet darker crusade was cut short when Allied assassins felled Heydrich in the streets of Prague in 1942? What greater, unseen menace did he represent- why was he alone among high Nazis targeted for elimination by the West? The clandestine events leading up to that unprecedented murder will forever remain a mystery, but James Barwick- as he did so convincingly in Shadow of the Wolf- has woven speculative fiction with the dark innuendos of the facts to answer the unanswerable in compelling fashion. The Heydrich legend is just the core of this stirring novel of suspense, political conniving, and love against the odds; here is incredible high-stakes intrigue that never stops- not even at the gates of the Vatican.