David Holliday

Adolph: the Spy Who Saved New York David Holliday

According to Herman Wouk in his novel 'War and Remembrance' the US Army's project to develop an atomic weapon was in trouble. Although they had succeeded in producing enough weapon grade plutonium for two bombs, there were series doubts that the implosion trigger would work. Worse, the facility built at staggering costs to enrich uranium failed to do so. The solution that the US Navy had in its laboratory which the army could build multiple copies of seemed to this author to be highly improbable. Still, the army did drop a uranium bomb on Hiroshima. If the reported solution was not possible, where did they get the uranium they needed. It is well known that the Germans had an atomic weapon project before the Americans did. The commando raid on their heavy water plant supposedly ended those efforts, but after the war the allies admitted that the project had continued without success. Adolph is a fictional story of how America was able to obtain a German atomic weapon through the courage and skill of two American Spies. More important, it tells how the Germans planned to employ the weapon on New York City and how the British and Americans combined to destroy the residential part of Dresden, Germany in order to defeat the German plan. The bombing of Dresden has been declared by historians as the greatest terrorist event of all time because it resulted in the death of over 130,000 civilians in a city that had no valid military target. Adolph is full of action, danger, and courage that will keep the reader hesitant to put the book down.