By Howard Blum (1914)
When a "neutral" United States becomes a trading
partner for the Allies early in World War I, the Germans implement a secret plan
to strike back. A team of saboteurs--including an expert on germ warfare, a
Harvard professor, and a brilliant, debonair spymaster--devise a series of
"mysterious accidents" using explosives and biological weapons, to bring down
vital targets such as ships, factories, livestock, and even captains of industry
like J.P. Morgan. New York Police Inspector Tom Tunney, head of the department's
Bomb Squad, is assigned the difficult mission of stopping them. Assembling a
team of loyal operatives, the cunning Irish cop hunts for the conspirators among
a population of more than eight million Germans. But the deeper he finds himself
in this labyrinth of deception, the more Tunney realizes that the enemy's plan
is far more complex and more dangerous than he suspected.
