Hyman, Tom (inscribed by author), — Seven Days to Petrograd.

NY, Viking, (1988). 1st Printing. VG in VG DJ. March 1917, afer thrre years of grim bloodletting and facing the threat of America's entry into the Great War, the German. government conceives a bold plan to knock Russia out of the conflict with the help of a clever Danish entrepreneur, Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann will arrange and finance the secret journey of a chaarismatic bolshevik leader from exile in Qurich to revolution in Petrograd. Lenin's sealed train passage to Russia is well known to history for the world still lives with its fateful consequences. The record shows, however, that the Allies knew of the German scheme and in this exciting and utterly convincin thriller, Hyman conjures up a dramatic allied effort to stope the plan that might just succeed. It depends entirely on one man, Harry Bauer, a disaffected American intelligence agent, summoned from the loose ends of his own state of exile by Winston chuchill. Bauer's mission is to infiltrate the party of revolutionaries aboard the train and kill their leader, in Germany if possible but kill him at any cost.