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, leading him to contemplate the ultimate betrayal.Albert Einstein is the world's most famous scientist and the author of the equation that brings forth the concept of the atomic bomb. In 1939, he informed Roosevelt that failure to get the bomb first could result in the end of Western Civilization.Alec and Christina Daniloff are the parents of the main protagonist, Thomas Daniloff. Each is fated to live in terror as their son repeatedly disappears in clandestine operations against the world's greatest dictatorship.Leslie Groves is a brigadier general in the US Army. He built the world's largest building, the Pentagon, in twelve months. Roosevelt selects Groves to head up the Manhattan Project, and he informs the irascible engineer that failure to get the bomb before Hitler does is not an option.Karl Luger is a German citizen whose parents were brutalized by the Nazis. He retaliates by spying for the allies. Luger and Daniloff are in constant danger of capture, torture, and death.These and dozens of other personalities, some fictional, some historic, populate Capture the Sun. Together, they tell the story of the greatest race in human historyaEUR|the race for nuclear supremacy.

-- Jon Dietz