

Silverman reluctantly agrees to sneak into Germany, posing as a Nazi officer, both to help Snyder defect and to gain details about the Germans’ nuclear program. Groves has learned that Günther Snyder, a physicist who worked with Silverman’s father at Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, may want to defect. Leslie Groves, the head of the Manhattan Project, who wants him for a special mission.

He’s assigned to a special intelligence unit, but his plans to fight alongside his comrades in Europe are derailed when he’s summoned to New York by Gen. In 1943, Nathan Silverman, a German Jew and the son of a scientist who escaped to the U.S., enlists in the army. Clichéd situations and underdeveloped characters mar this WWII historical from Balson ( Defending Britta Stein).
