JFK is in the Oval Office. "Love Me Do" is climbing the charts. And in West Berlin， a wealthy ex-black marketeer， the Dane， is offering a stolen spy satellite for sale. Nothing unusual there， except the asking price: half a billion dollars. Too much for any satellite—unless it s Hitler s legendary， long-lost Project Archangel. Archangel， it s rumored， is a device capable of shifting the balance of the Cold War. To find it， Mallory and Morse fly to the Monaco Grand Prix and infiltrate the Dane s entourage: a pair of lovely and vicious blonde twins， a ravishing Polish giantess with a taste for movie magazines， and an American ex-mercenary with quiet eyes and hands like stone. The Dane is both a perfect host and a savage killer， and has already done one of the Consultancy s agents to death. But their greatest peril may come from the long-buried passions of the icily beautiful Laura Morse. . . .