Richard Armstrong narrowly escaped Hitler’s atrocities in Eastern Europe on his courage and his wits—skills that served him well in peacetime. Having turned a strugglingBerlin newspaper into a success story seeminglyovernight, Armstrong made a name for himself

— and more than a few enemies along the way…

Meanwhile, young Keith Townsend enters the international arena, armed with a world-class education and a sense of entitlement to match.

Charged with growing his father’s newspaper business into a global media force, he and Armstrong are bound to become sworn rivals — until they arrive at the edge of collapse and will do whatever it takes to stay alive in the game…or die trying.