French Sixth Republic to finally take action against the DGSE and its associated organizations. With the war finally over, the United States hosts an international free-trade summit in London. US troops in Poland also return home. Characters French Nicolas Desaix - Foreign Minister and later President Americans Ross Huntington III - industrialist and close friend of the U.S. President Germans Wilhelm von Seelow - Bundeswehr colonel who is elected into the Bundestag after the war. Critical reception The book received positive reviews. Kirkus Reviews praised the novel for its cast of characters and accurate presentations of military tactics. Publishers Weekly commended the book for prose that easily advances the plot, but stated that the "too warm and fuzzy" epilogue should have been left out. References 1993 American novels Fiction set in 1998 American thriller novels American war novels