<P>It is 1917 and the United States is still wavering on the brink of war. At an elite intelligence meeting at a Hyde Park mansion Kit's handlers pair him up with someone he would never have expected—his mother. There's a German mole somewhere in the British government and the most likely suspect happens to be a diehard fan of the famous American theater actress Isabel Cobb. Disguised as a German-American reporter named Joseph William Hunter Kit follows his mother and her escort Sir Albert Stockman from the relative safety of London into the lion's den of Berlin.<br><br>This third installment in Butler's critically-acclaimed series features the swash-buckling action charismatic leading man and artful prose that have won the hearts of historical crime fiction fans everywhere.</P>