The Seventh Secret by Irving Wallace

Author:Irving Wallace [Wallace, Irving]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense & Thrillers
Publisher: Crossroad Press

Foster followed Rudi Zeidler through his sprawling well-appointed one-story home located about a half mile west of Grunewald.

Zeidler, wearing a white sport shirt, white ducks, and tennis shoes, was as tall as Foster, but lankier, bonier, a sprightly man in his sixties. His English was excellent, and he used it to describe various pieces of sculpture and French expressionist painting as they passed through his ultramodern house filled with oiled teak Danish furniture.

At the rear, they came into an airy studio, awash with the sun that was pouring in through a skylight. Except for a flat-topped desk and several web-backed tubular chairs, the studio was furnished only with tables used for 'pinning down design plans.

Zeidler took in the room with a wave of his arm. "Part of my work suite," he said. He indicated the tables. "I still keep my hand in with some architectural commissions from time to time." He jerked a chair back for Foster to sit in, and himself went behind the metal desk. Foster noticed that the single piece of equipment on the desk was a green computer.

"So," said Zeidler, "your book is on German architecture. Do you want to tell me about it?"

"I'd prefer to show it to you," said Foster, lifting up his portfolio. He handed it over to Zeidler. "You can see it's called Architecture of the 1000-Year Third Reich. What was done and what was planned but never done. You don't have to bother going through the whole book. That's just to give you an idea of what I've got. Also, to give you an idea of what I haven't got."

Zeidler had started flipping the pages of photographs and drawings in the portfolio. Without looking up, he said, "What haven't you got?"

"The buildings and designs you contributed to Albert Speer and Hitler, when you were Speer's associate. From what you told me on the phone it must have been a crazy time."

"Very crazy," Zeidler confirmed, as he remained absorbed in the portfolio. He finished it, closed it, and handed it back to Foster. "Yes, you seem to have everything except what I did."

"I want this book to be complete, Mr. Zeidler. I need to know what you did."

"Little enough. But still, of some importance."

"As far as I've been able to learn, you designed and constructed seven buildings for Hitler."

Zeidler moved his skeletal head in assent. "Seven exactly."

"I was not able to find photographs or even designs of any of them in Speer's papers."

Zeidler wrinkled his pointed nose. "Speer was not exactly proud of them. So he kept no copies. You would not find them anywhere else because they were meant to be secret."

"Secret? Why?"

"Because the structures were hidden underground headquarters for Hitler as he moved about Germany during the war," said Zeidler.

"They were actually kept secret?" Foster asked.

"Well as much as anything can be kept secret on construction jobs," said Zeidler. "After all, there are always a fair number of people involved in every construction. There are the laborers, although in most

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