espionage, american

Jake and Sally Burnes race to Istanbul via the Orient Express to thwart Russian plans of expansion in post World War II Europe.

Tapped by President Franklin Roosevelt to travel to Europe and learn what the Nazis are planning, twenty-two-year-old John F. Kennedy, son of the U.S. ambassador to Britain, joins the president's efforts to stop the flow of German money that is influencing the 1940 U.S. election.

Examines the CIA's installation of a nuclear-powered spy device, which was never removed, atop Nanda Devi to track Chinese troops; the threat the instrument poses; and the author's climbing experiences in the region.