<B>June 1945. Hitler has triumphed Britain is under German occupation and America cowers under the threat of nuclear attack.</B><br><br><br><br>In the dead of night a figure flits through the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey searching for a hidden document he knows could change the course of history. The journal he discovers by a young soldier David Erskine records an extraordinary story.<br><br><br><br>When the Allies drive the Germans out of France and victory seems imminent Erskine is in Antwerp where he witnesses a world-changing reversal of fortune. From a high vantage point he watches a huge mushroom cloud rise over London: an atomic bomb has been detonated by the Germans in a last desperate roll of the dice.<br><br><br><br>Captor becomes captive and Erskine is held as a POW in his own land. As the brutal grip of the occupying forces tightens he is determined to join the resistance. A daring escape leads him and his fiancée Katie on a breathless chase to the university town of St. Andrews where the Germans have established a secret research laboratory. When it becomes clear what its purpose is David Katie and their small trusted band must adopt a desperate and audacious plan to thwart Nazi domination . . .
