References To Actual History, Geography and Current Science
The novel reflects the true-life events of a 1950s espionage case involving Bruno Pontecorvo and Klaus Emil Fuchs, two physicists who defected to the Soviet Union.
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“But there, where I have garnered up my heart,
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