Trail of the Twisted Cros (13 page)

“The White Guards,” Winship said. “What did they want with Rogers?”

“A toe-hold in the U.S., a personality from the U.S.—an American media creation who could galvanize their forces in Britain.
The Nazis figured that in Britain there was a real chance to emerge as an important power. A great industrial nation skidding
into little more than a client state of the U.S., a skilled population increasingly resentful of black and Asian immigrants.

“Once Rogers could get on his feet in the U.S. as a legitimate politician, free of the spectacle of the swastikas and the
brown-shirts, which he was working toward, the world was his. He would have gained significant electoral strength, here in
this country.

“That concept could be imported to Britain. And that was the understanding between Rogers and Thatcher. Keeping Rogers out
of prison became the problem—keeping him free, even if he were only a martyr in exile.

“The
Führer
cannot exist for long as a humbled man behind bars.”

“How soon will a Fourth Reich show its head again, do you suppose?” Winship asked.

“Someone is undoubtedly planning it now,” Slayton said. “The dream of total, undeniable evil is our curse.”

“And how long do we last against it?”

“As long as it takes.”

with a charismatic latter-day Hitler at their head
hatch a daring transatlantic plot
to bend the nation to their iron will.
Their target is a strategic coal mine in the
American heartland—
their ultimate bargaining chip,
an ex-U.S. President living
in New York.
Warning: It
can
happen here…today!

races against the terror machine
with a fleet of fast, cold cars
and a will stronger than steel,
fighting for his country—
his own way.