Agent of the Iron Cross by Bill Mills - 9781538182086

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Agent of the Iron CrossThe Race to Capture German Saboteur-Assassin Lothar Witzke during World War I\nAuthor(s): Bill Mills\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781538182086, 978-1538182086\nSynopsis\nFrom Publishers Weekly: \""Devotees of cloak-and-dagger intrigue will revel in this thrilling and complex account.\""\nOn January 16th Witzke and several confederates departed Mexico City for the [url] border. After crossing 1500 miles of rugged territory, encountering bandits and other hazards along the way, Witzke reached Nogales. But unknown to the saboteur-assassin, the German espionage network in Mexico had been penetrated by Allied intelligence and one of his companions was a double agent. \nThe Witzke mission was the intelligence game played at its highest level - a plan for destruction on a massive scale, violent insurrection, and assassination, complete with master spies and double agents, diabolical .