''The Saint Peter's Plot'' is a 1978

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by the British writer

Derek Lambert Derek (William) Lambert (10 October 1929 – 10 April 2001) was educated at Epsom College and was both an author of thrillers in his own name, writing also as Richard Falkirk, and a journalist. As a foreign correspondent for the ''Daily Expres ...

. During the closing stage of the

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, the

Nazis Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...

hatch a plot to save their leaders from disaster.Burton p.233

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Bibliography

* Burton, Alan. ''Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. 1978 British novels Novels by Derek Lambert British thriller novels Novels set in the 1940s Novels about Nazi Germany {{1970s-thriller-novel-stub