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. 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. 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. Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a theoretical physicist. Balson's An Affair of Spies tells of a spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb. From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award-Ronald H.
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