Sorry! This site requires JavaScript. Virtually nothing will work without it. Please enable it in your browser.


A Despicable Profession

May, 1946. America is basking in hard-won peace and prosperity. The OSS has been disbanded, CIA does not yet exist. Rumors swirl about the Red Army massing tanks along the Elbe in East Germany. Former OSS agent Hal Schroeder gets an offer from Global Commerce LTD to be a trade rep in Berlin. He flies to New York to meet his new boss. Hal's jaw drops when former OSS Chief Wild Bill Donovan strides in. Schroeder, who survived perilous duty behind German lines, says he is no longer interested in being a spy. General Donovan assures him that's not part of his job description. Hal comes to doubt that when he meets his immediate superior in Berlin. It's Victor Jacobson, the case officer who sent him on repeated suicide missions in WWII.

Important places

New York (7,400)

Counties

New York (8,072)

Regions

Berlin (904)
New York (9,763)

Countries

Germany (3,818)
United States (64,950)

Other geographical areas

North Atlantic Ocean (8,812)