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02938aam a22004455i 4500 001 BAF068ACA91011ED97CFA77040ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230210010122 008 221026s2023 ed 1 eng 010 $a 2022047473 020 $a 9798885786850 040 $d SILO 050 10 $a PS3602.A628 $b A64 2023 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Balson, Ronald H. $e author. 245 13 $a An affair of spies $c Ronald H. Balson. 250 $a Large print 263 $a 2302 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2023. 300 $a 559 pages (large print) $c 23 cm 500 $a Brodart Bibz On-Order Record 520 $a "Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a theoretical physicist. His idyllic childhood was soon marred by increasing levels of bigotry against his family and the rest of the Jewish community, and after his uncle is arrested on Kristallnacht, he leaves Germany for New York City with only his mother's wedding ring to sell for survival. While attending an evening course at Columbia in 1942, Nathan notices a recruitment poster on a university wall and decides to enlist in the military and help fight the Nazi regime. To his surprise, he is quickly selected for a special assignment; he is trained as a spy, and ordered to report to the Manhattan Project. There he learns that the Allies are racing to develop a nuclear weapon before the Nazis, and a German theoretical physicist is hoping to defect. The physicist was a friend of his father's, and Nathan's mission is to return to Berlin via France and smuggle him out of Europe. Nathan will be accompanied by Dr. Allison Fisher, a brilliant young scientist who can speak French; he travels to her lab at the University of Chicago for a crash course in nuclear physics, then they embark on their adventure. Nathan and Allison soon develop feelings for one another, but as their relationship deepens they move ever closer to their dangerous goal. Will they be able to escape Europe with the defector and start a new life together, or will they fail their mission and become two more casualties of war? An Affair of Spies is an action-packed tale of heroism and love in the face of unspeakable evil." $c Provided by publisher. 650 $a World War, 1939-1945 650 $a Jews 650 $a Nazis 650 $a Spies $x United States 650 $a Undercover operations 650 $a Physicists 650 $a Historical fiction 650 $a Spy fiction 650 $a Large print books 650 $a Berlin (Germany) 941 $a 5 945 $a lpt 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409043743.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20231024010654.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230404010502.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230302012333.0 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20230210010703.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BAF068ACA91011ED97CFA77040ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search