Tapped by President Franklin Roosevelt to travel to Europe and learn what the Nazis are actually planning, 22-year-old John F. Kennedy, a sickly and unpromising second son of Roosevelt's Ambassador to Britain, becomes embroiled in the President's high-stakes effort to stop the flow of German money that is influencing the 1940 U.S. election.
Francine Mathews is an American author of espionage novels and Nantucket mysteries and writes a Jane Austen mystery series under the name of Stephanie Barron.
