{"product_id":"2940016012599","title":"22Tango","description":"Originally offered in a five volume set, 22Tango is now available in one volume of over half a million words.  Welcome to the world of information gathers as practiced by the Allied powers in both World War I and II.  Some were called spies, and were swashbuckling, flamboyant and enticing, such as Sir Ian Fleming and his alter ego, James Bond.  Some were loud and verbally enticed others, attempting to change minds and move loyalties, such as Lord Haw Haw and Tokyo Rose.  Some quietly moved among the enemy and performed tasks large and small to interrupt the ongoing conflict; and some sat behind desks and used their talents and fine minds to attempt to disrupt war in general and the current enemy in particular.  Some gave much; and some gave everything.  \u003cbr\u003eMeet the Culler family and friends.  Begin with Edmund and Mary, a charming couple who honeymooned in the newly formed Germany of pre-World War I, and go to the 1912 Olympics, with Edmund working for the American government and posing as a sports journalist while Mary kept her first home and delivering their first child.  They meet another \"man behind the curtain,\" and make a life-long friend of Leo Asher, Professor, pseudo coach, and full-time intelligence officer.  After a stint in Bern, Switzerland, the Cullers were swiftly moved back the United States.  World War I was heating up and dependents were being evacuated, even from the neutral countries, such as Switzerland.  With an entire continent at war, safety anywhere in Europe was questionable.\u003cbr\u003eEdmund continued to move about with his real work and 1916 found himself on assignment in Cadiz, Spain, where he met the Empress of Cadiz, the leading representative of one of the oldest intelligence organization in the world.  While meeting with the Empress, he found Leo also enlisted, as well as a man from Monaco, Haro Schmidt and a Swede, Alrick Hansson, who were involved in their own intelligence, that of tracing and tracking the idealists of the world.  \u003cbr\u003eThese four agents agreed to join the Cadiz organization, which did not interfere with their employment, and became life-long friends.  This was a very good thing for Ty Culler, who was gestating in his mother's womb in Philadelphia, PA USA, as the meeting was held.  \u003cbr\u003eTyrus Edmund Culler, a 24-year old Allied agent and a vibrant female Nazi agent, Britta Eberhardt Blau, who eventually becomes an Allied agent because of her intense desire to destroy the Nazi system from the inside-out are, at first glance, an odd duo.  They meet on the high seas of the South Atlantic in September of 1942, during the sinking of the RMS Laconia and find common goals and unify to destroy the Nazis, on both land and sea.  They select the code name 22Tango as their own, since they reason that it always takes \"two to tango\" and   This story has intrigue, rather than tempest and delves more into the individuals involved in the Nazi phenomenon than battlefield depictions.  Ty and Britta move throughout the Atlantic theater of operations including the European, Scandinavian, and Mediterranean theaters of operation.  Live within and among these people as they perform their Intelligence missions.  Feel what it is like, both within and without, as they struggle to accomplish their designated missions from all sides.  This story also includes a romance; a love affair formed by circumstances as Ty and Britta begin independently and become united eventually.  It is not a torrid love affair, but rather a friendship born of trust and interdependency prompted by a global war. This friendship results in a marriage that lasts over 60 years.  This book contains a community of fictional characters interwoven with actual historical individuals and places, from the tip of South Africa north to the Arctic; and from the eastern United States to Egypt.  \u003cbr\u003eThis epic novel is appropriate for readers from young adults new to war-time Intelligence operations to venerable readers from all cultures, including those still alive who served in WWII.  There are no occasions of explicit sex or excessive violence.  The horrors of concentration camps and the Holocaust are treated in a manner that acknowledges their existence, but does not dwell on the details clearly addressed and described in so many other reputable works on these subjects.    The fictional characters mingle with heroes and villains of the era and provide a tapestry of human, social, political and personal realities during a remarkable period in world history.  The people of the world of Intelligence gathering were, for the most part, not on a path of adventure-filled and victim-strewn episodes, nor was their existence full of dramatic encounters and acute brinksmanship even though there were moments of harrowing excitement.  Such was the life of many of those who really contributed to the intelligence effort then and we can only assume the same is true for now.","brand":"DUO Publication \u0026 Documentation R\u0026D","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167675433200,"sku":"2940016012599","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016012599_p0.jpg?v=1763627769","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016012599","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}