It's the city's most infamous after-hours haunt—a glittering hotbed of deals and debaucheries. The sordid death of Philip Stilwell sends shock waves through the Alibi Club...for there's much more to Stilwell's untimely end than a sex game gone wrong. His murder and the desperate attempt to keep a deadly weapon out of German hands will bring together the strands of a twisted plot of betrayal, passion, and espionage—one connected to the Alibi Club...and to the most explosive secret of the war. <br><br>As the Nazis march on Paris and the crisis escalates, four remarkable characters are swept into the maelstrom. Their courage will change the course of history.<br><br>Epic and yet intimate, a seamless blend of fact and fiction based on a little-known episode of the war, <b>The Alibi Club</b> is a thriller of fierce and complex suspense by a writer whose own life in the spy world makes espionage come uniquely alive.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>