Zuckerman, Gordon

The sentinels return in an epic battle against a big oil monopoly.

As America’s dependence on fossil fuel takes hold in the post–World War Two climate of economic growth, seven major oil companies join forces to control the industry, amassing obscene profits, squeezing tax- payers, and manipulating supplies around the world.

The Sentinels, graduates of an elite American doctoral program—who, in Zuckerman’s last book, foiled a group of German industrialists’ scheme to hoard illegal war profitsset out to bust up the circle of power. They quickly discover that the oil barons’ influence runs deep in the U.S. and British government and banking sectors. Undeterred, the Sentinels fan out across several continents in an intricately plotted mission to bring Big Oil to its knees.

In the financial devastation of the 1930s, a greedy, power-hungry group of German industrialists plot to usher in the National Socialist Party in order to rearm Germany and reap the financial rewards. Thus rises Hitler.

With Hitler in power, the Six Sentinels, graduates of an elite American doctoral program, uncover the industrialists’ plan to hoard hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal war profits. Using their financial and familial connections around the globe, they work to foil the machinations of the financiers of the Third Reich. In a daring strategy of Robin Hood–style thievery, the sentinels put their lives on the line to serve justice—and thus become embroiled in a dangerous and violent international conspiracy.

A gripping story that escalates at every turn, The Sentinels: Fortunes of War is the first in a series that follows the Six Sentinels as they continue to alter the course of history.