
The Manhattan Gambit
Description for THE MANHATTAN GAMBIT by Benjamin J Stein: THE TIME: April 1943 THE GOAL: The Secret of the Atomic Bomb THE HUNTER: Obersturmbannfuhrer SS Joachim Tratner, a killing machine so deadly that even his superiors fear him THE PREY: Albert Einstein, the dreamy, childlike genius of atomic matter THE HUNTING GROUND: The United States of America FOR HEINRICH HIMMLER, IT WAS THE GAMBIT THAT COULD WIN THE WAR: THE MANHATTAN GAMBIT In April 1943, the war in Europe is balanced on a knife edge. The masters of the Third Reich see that time is against them. Their only hope is a desperate gamble to seize the one weapon that can change the course of the war. Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuhrer, SS, has a plan and a mission for the killing machine Joachim Trattner. Joachim Trattner is already in the United States. He is at a bucolic prison camp for Nazi POWs in America, in Monterey, California. Trattner breaks out, aided by his beautiful American girlfriend,