THE ODD MAN tells the story of a WWII pilot, Robert Mackenzie, shot down in Germany during the war, who ends up working with German resistance only to get caught in the firebombing of Hamburg. He helps Danish resistance with the escape plans for Neils Bohr who is then spirited out of the country on his way to Los Alamos. Mac finishes out the war in London working for 'Wild Bill' Donovan and the OSS. He goes back to the States after the war and teaches a school for spies, first out of SAC, then with the newly formed CIA.

When his first intelligence pipe-line, set up in East Berlin during the 60's, is blown, Mac and the survivors try to figure out who betrayed them. While everyone is looking toward the Soviet Union and East Germany, their prey is actually in Washington, D.C., polishing his political resume. Greed and arrogance would have him stop at nothing, even the selling out of his country, to achieve the biggest prize of them all.

The daughter of one of Mac's American spies is writer, Elaine Barton. While going through old notes belonging to one of the dead secret agents, she starts piecing together what happened years earlier. But Elaine and Mac need proof, something to link their prime suspect to the guy doing the dirty work. Their team spreads out worldwide, even into the Soviet Union, moving their pieces in for the kill. They find that someone has been eliminating members of the Russian pipeline as well as their own. Mac and Elaine need to flush him out before events in the Soviet Union change. But the one they seek fears Soviet archives will be opened before he can eliminate the last people who can link him to the Soviets. Will it be checkmate or do they just kick over the table?


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