The global phenomenon of the bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire, and The Evening and the Morning. His code name was "The Needle." He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence – a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood and the target of the most desperate manhunt in history. Yet his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable Englishwoman whose loyalty, if swayed, could secure his freedom and win the war for the Nazis.