Jack Higgins · 1991 · thriller

Jack Higgins's 1991 sequel to The Eagle Has Landed. Kurt Steiner did not die in Norfolk: he is alive in British hands, and Himmler wants him back for reasons of his own. Liam Devlin is fetched out of Ireland at gunpoint and sent to take a man out of the Tower of London - a job that only works if half the people involved are lying to the other half.

1. 1
   Berlin

   In Berlin, Himmler learns that Steiner survived and is held in London, and orders him recovered - not out of sentiment, but because of what the colonel knows and who else might want him talking.

2. 2
   Dublin

   Liam Devlin is lecturing quietly at Trinity College and has no intention of going anywhere, until German agents make it clear that the alternative to cooperation is arranged for him - and he begins planning on his own terms.

3. 3
   The Tower of London

   Steiner is held at the Tower, and the plan turns on forged authority, borrowed uniforms and the willingness of busy men to accept paperwork that looks right - a rescue conducted almost entirely by walking in and asking.

4. 4
   Amsterdam

   The route out runs by light aircraft to the Netherlands and on toward Germany - and the closer the pair get to safety, the clearer it becomes which of the people who sent them will need them dead on arrival.