Scarlatti Inheritance by Robert Ludlum

Elizabeth Scarlatti has a plan, a desperate last-minute gamble, designed to save the world from a most dangerous man - her own son. Unless she can stop him, he is about to give Hitler's Third Reich the most powerful instrument on earth.

Ulster, an incalculably cruel man who is working for the Third Reich under the name of Heinrich Kroeger. 

Her weapons: money and power. Her target: the most dangerous man in the world—her own son.

If Elizabeth cannot stop him, Ulster will give Hitler the most powerful instrument on earth.

The Scarlatti Inheritance is the first of 27 thriller novels written by American author Robert Ludlum.

Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Scarlatti Inheritance:
 
“[Robert Ludlum] has that sense of drama and pace that only the best storytellers have.” 
-San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Gripping . . . Ludlum writes with imagination and convincing authority.”
-Baltimore Sun
 
“Great, astonishing, the most spellbinding suspense in years!”
-Minneapolis Star Tribune
 
“Drive and excitement from first page to last.”
-Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather