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Berlin, 1930 — When a wave of change sweeps a radical political party to power, Sofie von Meyer Rhodes’s academic husband benefits from the ambitions of its newly elected chancellor. Although Sofie and Jürgen do not share the social views growing popular in Hitler’s Germany, Jürgen’s position with its burgeoning rocket program improves their diminishing fortunes. But as Sofie watches helplessly, her beloved Berlin begins to transform, forcing her to consider what they must sacrifice morally for their young family’s security and what the price of their neutrality will be.
Twenty years later, Jürgen is one of the many German scientists offered pardons for their roles in the war and taken to America to work for its fledgling space program. For Sofie, this is a chance to exorcise the ghosts that have followed her across the ocean and make a fresh start in her adopted country. But her neighbors are not as welcoming or as understanding as she had hoped. When scandalous rumors about the Rhodes family’s affiliation with Hitler’s regime spread, idle gossip turns to bitter rage, and the act of violence that results will tear apart Sofie’s community and her family before the truth is finally revealed.
Inspired by the true story of Operation, a controversial secret U.S. intelligence program that employed former Nazis after World War II.
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