Durwood White

Antarctica Durwood White

A redacted document entitled, "Operation Highjump" lies on President Winston Darcy's desk. A fragment of World War II history written within its pages grips the President's mind. The year is 1947, former President Harry S. Truman reviews notes left by deceased President Franklin D. Roosevelt, his concern of Hitler's takeover of the Antarctica for establishing a new Germany. Darcy immediately sends a telegram to his special projects expert, Dr. Robert Caruso resting in Bermuda from a previous covert caper. In the Oval Office discussion, Darcy presents the redacted document and tells Caruso of a congressional grant of $340,000 to Admiral Byrd financing a task force to Antarctica. Byrd returns telling madcap stories, and the celebrated explorer disappears. Dr. Caruso's astounding mission: Discover what Byrd actually witnessed, and why he has disappeared. He is going to Antarctica and must report to Admiral McHenny at the Pentagon. Admiral McHenny forms a task force bound for Antarctica. Caruso befriends Edward Woolsey who captains the flagship aircraft carrier. The venture unveils a city-under-the ice built in the 1930s, where a current Neo-Nazi group in America is actively cloning a new bred of Nazi from the genes of previous SS officers. The plot unravels a plan to takeover America and establishes a Fourth Reich. Implementation requires the assassination of President Darcy. Caruso uncovers a camp in Montana where 3,000 cloned recruits are being trained. Will the attack on Camp David find President Darcy in residence? A disgruntle clone, Henri Weisman has inadvertently heard the date of the President's visit. He plans to kill Hans Grübber, the Neo-Nazi leader who is ambulatory in a wheelchair. Grübber's nemesis drives him to assassinate the President because he is personally responsible for an automobile accident that kills his wife and leaves him paralyzed. Henri realizes if he fails he will be tortured and reveal the date of the President's visit to Camp David. To prevent this he has himself hypnotized with a wrong date planted in his subconscious. In the attack he is administered scopolamine, the favorite truth serum of the SS. The attack on Camp David fails. Henri is rescued and finds the Grübber van on South Bob's Hill, waiting for news of the attack. Henri jams the accelerator and drives the van over the bluff, but leaps out just before the van plunges 400 feet.