by Brad Meltzer
First published 2023
In 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt travels to Tehran for an unprecedented summit with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. The three Allied leaders must hammer out crucial wartime strategy as Nazi Germany fights desperately on multiple fronts. Their historic meeting will determine the course of World War II and reshape the postwar world. But German intelligence discovers the secret Tehran conference and hatches a bold counterplot. Nazi operatives plan to assassinate all three heads of state in a single strike that could shatter the Allied coalition. As Roosevelt arrives in the Iranian capital, he faces mortal danger from an enemy conspiracy designed to change history. The mission unfolds with body doubles, covert rescues, and deadly political maneuvering. Meltzer and Mensch reveal how the most important diplomatic gathering of the twentieth century nearly became a catastrophic bloodbath that would have altered the fate of nations.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, action, political-thriller
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-allies, high-stakes
Setting: Tehran, Iran
Period: 1943
400 pages · Hardcover · Flatiron Books
Content warnings: violence