Jack Higgins · 1978 · thriller

Jack Higgins's 1978 thriller. In May 1963, weeks before Kennedy is due in West Berlin, the East seizes Father Sean Conlin - Dachau survivor and the most respected churchman in Germany - and sets a brainwasher to work on him. If he can be made to confess to being a CIA hireling on the day of the visit, the propaganda will be worth more than any spy.

1. 1
   West Berlin

   With the President's visit weeks away and the city still raw from the building of the Wall, Western intelligence learns that Conlin has been lifted from the East and is being held somewhere beyond the border.

2. 2
   Schloss Neustadt

   In the cellars of an old castle east of the line, Harry Van Buren works on the priest with the patience of a man who has broken better - a confession given freely to the world's press being worth more than a corpse.

3. 3
   The Berlin Wall

   A handful of men go over and bring him back toward the Wall against every reasonable estimate of their chances - and the last hundred yards are run on the morning Kennedy stands up in West Berlin to say what he came to say.