A homegrown Nazi conspiracy threatens to destroy America in this historical FBI thriller: "A stirring successor to Frederick Forsyth" ( The Independent). Washington, DC, 1940. Jimmy Nessheim, a young special agent in the fledgling FBI, is assigned to infiltrate a new German American organization known as the Bund. Ardently pro-Nazi, the Bund is conspiring to sabotage American efforts against Adolf Hitler. But Nessheim's investigation soon uncovers something far more sinister—and it leads directly to the White House. Drawn into the rarified world of Washington's high society, Nessheim is caught in a web of political intrigue, secret lives, and a lethal plot that could rewrite history. With sharp wit and a keen eye for period detail, author Andrew Rosenheim brings to life an America at the crucial period before it entered World War II. He seamlessly weaves into the narrative larger-than-life figures such as J. Edgar Hoover, Clyde Tolson, and Lucy Mercer Rutherford, as well as historical events like the 1939 pro-Nazi rally held at New York City's Madison Square Garden.

本作の真髄は、第二次大戦前夜の米国が抱えた「内なる闇」を、冷徹かつ鮮烈に描いた点にあります。若き捜査官の目を通し、ナチズムが民主主義を侵食する恐怖を浮き彫りにする。実在の人物を配した虚実皮膜の構成は、単なる歴史劇を超えた不穏なリアリティを突きつけ、読者を当時のワシントンへ強烈に引き込みます。 ローゼンハイムの筆致は、華やかな社交界に潜む策謀を緻密に写し出し、歴史の「もしも」を緊迫感たっぷりに提示します。国家の正義と個人の倫理が交錯する中で信念を試される主人公の葛藤は、現代を生きる我々の胸をも打ちます。知的な刺激と重厚なドラマが融合した、歴史ミステリの至宝と呼ぶべき傑作です。