The One Man: A Novel

Poland, 1944. Alfred Mendl, a renowned physicist, is transported by train to a Nazi concentration camp after being caught attempting to flee Paris with forged papers. His family is separated from him upon arrival, and his life's work is destroyed. Unknown to the guards, Mendl possesses knowledge held by only two people in the world—the other is already working for the Nazi war machine. In Washington, DC, Intelligence lieutenant Nathan Blum decodes messages from occupied Poland. A teenager who escaped the Krakow ghetto after the Nazis executed his family, Nathan seeks greater involvement in the war effort. When "Wild" Bill Donovan, head of the OSS, proposes a mission to infiltrate a heavily guarded concentration camp and extract one man—the physicist the Allies believe can secure victory—Nathan faces an extraordinary challenge. This historical thriller follows compelling characters through tense, interconnected storylines set in a landscape both horrifyingly familiar and entirely new.