Title: The Scarlatti Inheritance
First published: 1971
Description: Her weapons: money and power. Her target: the most dangerous man in the world—her own son. Elizabeth Wyckham Scarlatti has a plan, a desperate, last-minute gamble designed to save the world from her son, Ulster, an incalculably cruel man who is working for the Third Reich under the name of Heinrich Kroeger. If Elizabeth cannot stop him, Ulster will give Hitler the most powerful instrument on earth.

In Washington, word is received that an elite member of the Nazi High Command is willing to defect and divulge information that will shorten the war. But his defection entails the release of the ultra-top-secret file on the Scarlatti Inheritance - a file whose contents will destroy many of the Western world's greatest and most illustrious reputations if they are made known...THE SCARLATTI INHERITANCE is a spellbinding story of international terror and intrigue, greed and cunning, suspense and murder.
Subjects: Fiction, Subversive activities, World War, 1939-1945, American Spy stories, Political corruption, Defectors, Nazis, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Germany, fiction, Scarlatti, elizabeth wyckman (fictitious character), fiction
Time periods: 1945