An exciting adventure story that spans the countries of Malta, Italy, Germany and England during the desperate closing days of WWII.
Mike Ritter was a U.S. Navy flying boat pilot based in Malta. Sudden new orders relocate him to Italy, where he receives an incredible secret assignment.
Mike soon becomes entangled with an attractive but fiery young German woman called Renate Ross. She was a German army deserter that had worked as a driver for a murdered SS General and kept a terrible secret of those times. She became Mike's translator for their astounding new mission as they were to fly to the secret rocket base in Northern Germany called Peenemunde with orders to scoop up many of those ingenious scientific minds from under the nose of the advancing Red Army.
Their task was to deliver them safely to the Allies in England, however, MI6 seemed to have other plans for Renate as an armed showdown led to a desperate confession and a totally unexpected outcome for Mike!