The eve of battle: a mystery so lethal, not anything and nobody is safe

June 1939. England is partying like there isn't any the next day to come, fuel mask on the prepared. In Cambridge the may well Balls are performed out with a frantic depth - however the strong occasions will not last... In Europe, the Nazis have invaded Czechoslovakia, and in Germany he persecution of the Jews is now so common that determined Jewish mom and dad ship their young children to security in Britain aboard the Kindertransport. in the direction of domestic, the IRA's S-Plan bombing crusade has led to greater than a hundred terrorist outrages round England.

But probably the main far-reaching occasion of all is going principally unreported: in Germany, Otto Hahn has produced the 1st man-made fission and an atomic machine is now a really actual probability. The Nazis organize the Uranverein workforce of physicists: its activity is to construct a superbomb. The German excessive Command knows that British and US scientists are engaged on comparable line. Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory is the place the atom was once cut up in 1932. may well the Cambridge males now win the race for a nuclear bomb? Hitler's generals must be yes they be aware of the entire Cavendish's secrets and techniques. simply then will it's secure for Germany to salary war.

When one of many Cavendish's most interesting brains is murdered, Professor Tom Wilde is once again drawn into an intrigue from which there turns out no get away. In a conspiracy that stretches from Cambridge to Berlin and from Washington DC to the west coast of eire, he faces lethal forces that threaten the destiny of the world.

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