Night of the Assassins

The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin

By: Howard Blum

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

The New York Times bestselling author returns with a tale as riveting and suspenseful as any thriller: the true story of the Nazi plot to kill the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. during World War II.

The mission: to kill the three most important and heavily guarded men in the world.
The assassins: a specially trained team headed by the killer known as The Most Dangerous Man in Europe.
The stakes: nothing less than the future of the Western world.

The year is 1943 and the three Allied leaders—Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin—are meeting for the first time at a top-secret conference in Tehran. But the Nazis have learned about the meeting and Hitler sees it as his last chance to turn the tide. Although the war is undoubtedly lost, the Germans believe that perhaps a new set of Allied leaders might be willing to make a more reasonable peace in its aftermath. And so a plan is devised—code name Operation Long Jump—to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin.

Immediately, a highly trained, hand-picked team of Nazi commandos is assembled, trained, armed with special weapons, and parachuted into Iran. They have six-days to complete the daring assignment before the statesmen will return home. With no margin for error and little time to spare, Mike Reilly, the head of FDR’s Secret Service detail—a man from a Montana silver mining town who describes himself as “an Irish cop with more muscle than brains”—must overcome his suspicions and instincts to work with a Soviet agent from the NKVD (the precursor to the KGB) to save the three most powerful men in the world.

The Night of the Assassins is a suspenseful true-life tale about an impossible mission, a ticking clock, and one man who stepped up to the challenge and prevented a world catastrophe.

Fascinating

I have read many histories WWII, but never one that depicted the story in this book. Well written and a real page turner. The book details the machinations of the Nazis, the Soviets, the Brits and the Americans in attempting to assassinate the Big Three and the efforts to protect them. Fascinating how close the Nazis got and how part of the protection was to convince FDR to stay at the Soviet embassy rather than the American embassy. Definitely worth reading.

Riveting and Attention Grabbing

I love this book. The quotes. The perspectives. The daring attempts to be remembered.

A Good Listen

The right length for this book. Neither a blockbuster nor too slow for the information content, and a very good narrator.

Recitation of actors and events

Amazing detail, and research the narrative moved along quickly, promoting continued interest meticulously, prepared plans subverted by basic human grade.

very entertaining history lesson

I lived the story, feeling like I was there. it was a nice blend of history and entertainment. i was engaged the whole time.very good read.