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An affair of spies, a novel, Ronald H. Balson

eng

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fiction

An affair of spies

1312197452

Ronald H. Balson

a novel

"Nathan Silverman grew up in a Jewish home in Berlin, raised by his mother and his father, a leading nuclear physicist. Nathan was an accomplished student; his future seemed secure. But then Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933, and everything changed. While attending an evening course at Columbia in 1942, Nathan notices a recruitment poster and enlists in the U.S. Army to fight the Nazi regime. Suddenly, he is transferred from his unit to the top secret Manhattan Project, the military branch in charge of overseeing the development of the atomic bomb. A respected German scientist, a colleague of his father and a man well known to Nathan, has sent a message that he desires to defect to America. Nathan is ordered to travel through enemy lines back to Berlin, learn what he can about Germany's progress in building a nuclear bomb, and bring Dr Snyder back to join the Manhattan Project. Dr Allison Fisher, a brilliant young physicist, is assigned to accompany Nathan. Together, they journey across the Atlantic to a safe house in wartime Berlin. But as their relationship deepens, unseen dangers lurk around every corner. Will they be able to escape Europe with the defector, armed with Germany's nuclear secrets, and find a future together -- or will they become two more casualties of an unforgiving war?" --Book jacket

adult