![]() But, as Drake states, “There can’t be a more honorable way to die.” Through Drake’s eyes, we witness the horror of Kristallnacht, assassination attempts, and the clandestine world of tense secret underground meetings, with each member sensing that their attempts to stop the Nazis will almost certainly end in their own executions. But he realizes that a tiny cadre fighting the Nazi state machine can’t succeed without incredible courage, unimaginable sacrifice and the ingenuity to pull off a cunning deception. It is only when he becomes aware of the existence, and the potential threat, of a game-changing Nazi A-Bomb project, that he comprehends “the stunning, paralyzing vision of the end of humanity,” and commits himself to the cause. At first, he is unwilling to join, despite the fact that Hitler’s actions have had a very personal impact on Drake his own father was murdered by the Nazis years earlier. Someone had to stop them.ĭrake is working for the New York-based World Week news magazine when he is recruited by the Black Orchestra, a secretive organization bent on foiling Hitler’s burgeoning wartime plans. Nazi scientists were three years ahead of America’s Manhattan Project. It’s a tale where scientific facts and historical figures and events combine with plausible fiction to create a vivid and convincing espionage thriller revealing how narrowly we escaped Hitler’s plan for the ultimate weapon. In The Armageddon Secret, Burnham takes the German A-bomb project and a real-life, elite anti-Nazi conspiracy and tills them as rich soil for speculation with the harrowing tale of Alex Drake, an American foreign correspondent in Berlin on the cusp of World War II. ![]() Todd Rider, MIT Nuclear Physicist, The Armageddon Secret echoes the intro by Ken Follett to his novel Eye of the Needle, ‘All in all, one thinks something like this must have happened.’” Based on ten years of research and endorsed by Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and Dr. “Oppenheimer and Groves were obviously scared to death that the Nazis were coming with an atomic bomb, and my book of historical fiction, based on actual events and people, gives a plausible explanation as to why, with a three-year head start, thank God, they fell off the track to the ultimate weapon. “The Armageddon Secret is a novel inspired by actual events that has been out for about a year,” author Robert Burnham said. ![]()
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