Autumn 1943. Hitler knows he cannot win the war: now he must find a way to make peace. FDR and Stalin are willing to negotiate; only Churchill refuses to listen. The upcoming Allied Tehran conference will be where the next steps - whatever they are - will be decided.
Agent Willard Mayer, FDR's envoy to the conference, steps into this nest of double- and-triple-dealing. A cool, self-absorbed, emotionally distant womanizer with a questionable past, Mayer is the perfect foil for the steamy world of deception, betrayals, and assassinations that make up the moral universe of realpolitik.
His job is to secure the peace that the Allies and Hitler appear to seek. The stakes couldn't be higher.