The mission is clear: Infiltrate. Free the general. Get out. But the special agents deployed to rescue a US general from an Alpine fortress should also have been informed that they can trust nothing and no one—not even the orders for the rescue operation they've just received. Agents die alone: Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood learn this the hard way. The novel on which this spy thriller, full of surprising twists, is based was written by action master Alistair MacLean against the backdrop of World War II. New product