The Dark Year

America was plunged into World War II in 1942, with Axis enemies to the East and West. The year began with losses at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines and U.S. shipping in the Atlantic. Treasury official and Navy reservist Myles Finucane was still on call as President Roosevelt’s agent for secret undercover missions. This bleak year takes Finucane to Brazil with a Hollywood star, a trip nearly fatal. Finucane is later drafted by the OSS he helped organize for a dubious overseas operation that does not go as planned. Into this wartime mix are a cabal of American officials whose ideology made them spies for the USSR, and an Axis official who believed in the traditional rules of war at a time when fanatics ruled.