Capture the Sun

Thomas Martin Daniloff is a junior professor at Princeton University. He was trained by Albert Einstein. President Franklin Roosevelt asked this young academic to risk his life not once but twice in an effort to find out how close the Nazis were to acquiring an atomic bomb.

Max Leichner is a member of Hitler’s personal bodyguard, the notorious SS. Leichner is also a trained physicist assigned to the German uranium program. His allegiance to Hitler melts away over a twenty-four-month period,...