Historical Mystery Spy

Reclutado por un legendario agente de la CIA, Callejas, hombre mundano y ya maduro, es lanzado al teatro europeo en medio de La guerra fría. Son tiempos en que La crisis de octubre y La invasión de Bahía Cochinos tienen alborotado al avispero humano que es la Miami de la década del ’60. Los líderes del exilio anticastrista se piden la cabeza unos a otros y todos se unen para hacer lo mismo con el presidente Kennedy por haber dejado a la Brigada de Asalto 2506 sin apoyo aéreo en los manglares de Playa Girón.

Young Lena Bentheim is forced to flee Nazi Germany for Chicago in 1935, leaving her family and boyfriend behind. After learning English, she eventually finds a new life as a secretary in the Physics Department of the University of Chicago. She meets and marries another German refugee scientist and has a child. Then tragedy strikes, and Lena is forced to spy on the nuclear fission experiments at the University of Chicago.

Tinker’s mother works at the local radio factory. Vital to the war effort, she tells him. Apparently, people need radios to listen to Hitler’s armies rampaging across Europe. But that doesn’t explain the mysterious note he finds in his mother’s bag. Nor the appearance of Ola, the girl with the Eastern European accent. And when his sheep dog, Fidget, leads him to strange whirring sounds coming from Hut 8 in Bletchley Park, Tinker knows he must solve the puzzle, with the survival of his world dependent upon it.