Stealing Trinity

by: Ward Larsen

Published by: Oceanview Publishing

Reviewed By Michele E. Davis

This is a fantastical spy adventure. Alex Braun is a spy who traverses from Berlin to England, to the tumultuous Atlantic Ocean and then the moneyed leisure of Newport, Rhode Island where his Harvard sweetheart, Lydia Cole, is visiting her parents with her buffoon of a husband. He also travels to the vacant desert of New Mexico and J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project, and lastly to the middle of the Pacific. Stealing Trinity moves along at a brisk pace, sucking the reader into an exciting WWII tale of espionage, treason, subterfuge and the realization that Germany is no longer fighting a war.

Karl Heinrich, a misguided German Fascist on the Manhattan Project, is ready and willing to impart the secrets of the quiet tribe of university department chairs and Nobel Laureates on Oppenheimer’s project in order for the Third Reich to see fruition. Heinrich meets up with Braun (also known as Alex Brown, to his American friends), for their rendezvous, all the while Braun is making plans to sell the secrets to the Russians–and not alerting the fat little Fascist that he’s two-timing him.

Simultaneously, Major Michael Thatcher, of the Queen’s Military in Great Britain, and Mr. Jones of the FBI, are hot on Braun’s trail. But Thatcher has a secret weapon to help him get to Braun quicker–the help of blithe young Lydia Cole, the woman who once loved Alex Brown, but who has now suffered a great loss at his hands.

You won’t be able to put Stealing Trinity down. Regardless of how much truth is in this novel, it’s a great peek into the history of the A-bomb.

Armchair Interviews says: Amazingly well-written, fast-paced and intriguing.