Mario Puzo's first acclaimed novel before his creation of the international bestseller The Godfather". This is an astounding story of corruption & betrayal. Hardened by the brutality & desceration of three long years of war Walter Mosca returns to America a changed man. But he has no sooner arrived than he knows he must run back to the land of the enemy to find the woman who accepts the rage & cruelty of the world around her. In Germany where the bitter aftermath of war is everything apparent American cigarettes will buy almost anything. Mosca now faces a different kind of war one in which he must make a fateful decision
- between love & ambition passion & greed life & death..."