Auschwitz, 1944. Alfred Mendl's days are numbered. Alebo je malý ľavý život naživo - jeho rodina bola turná smerom od neho, jeho život pracoval zapálený vpred jeho oči - until glimmer hope arises as hodinkami game šach. Tento stráž Mendl je s ostatnými prisonermi, ale v skutočnosti sa drží knowledge that only two people in the world possess. The other is working hard for the Nazi war machine. Four thousand miles away, vo Washingtone DC, inteligencia lieutenant Nathan Blum decodes messages from occupied Poland. Po Nazis murdered jeho rodina, Nathan escaped the Krakow ghetto a je determinovaný k podpore svojho nového štátu - a americké vláde knows exactly how he can. The want to send Nathan on mission to rescue one man from a place no 1 can break in to - or out of. Even if Nathan does make it in and finds him, can they escape the most heavily guarded place on earth? One Man is thrilling tale of heroism z master of the genre, Andrew Gross.