The Mission

Jeff Handler was off to Moscow on business. It was still the Soviet Union of the Communist Party and the hand of oppression lay heavy on the land, but Moscow had become a magnet to the diamond trade and Jeff's employer wanted to develop the new and lucrative source. But before Jeff setout in search of a fortune, a new mission was thrust upon him. Fifty years before, Jeff's grandfather had left a pair of tefillin in Stalin's Moscow, a precious, holy pair of tefillin, and he wanted Jeff to find it and bring it back home. Find a pair of tefillin in the land of thecommissars after half a century? It couldn't be done! How many otherneedles was Jeff expected to find in the Kremlin's haystacks? The old maninsisted; Jeff couldn't say no. He accepted the mission impossible, and that is when his deadly adventure began. Jeff's attempts to trace the missing tefillin attracted the suspicions of the dreaded KGB, the Sovietsecret police. The American snooper must be a spy. "Scruples" were not in thei