Shadows of Manhattan

Late autumn of 1959, Berlin. At the most tense moment of the Cold War confrontation, a top-secret Soviet file code-named "Man in the Mirror" disappeared. Hidden in the archives is a physics discovery that is enough to break the nuclear balance - whoever gets it will have an absolute advantage in the nuclear game. Princeton physics professor Lu Zhixing was approached by the CIA and forced to return to the world of intelligence. At the same time, Gu Beichen, the backbone of China's nuclear theory, set out from Beijing with a secret mission and arrived in East Berlin via Moscow. At an academic conference at the Pergamon Museum, the two "unexpectedly reunited" - they were once the closest classmates in Copenhagen in 1927, but thirty-two years later they stood on both sides of the Iron Curtain. KGB female agent Lyudmila was ordered to "accompany" Gu Beichen, but her real purpose of coming to Berlin was to find out the true cause of death of her father, the late Soviet physicist Korolev. As three men from different camps piece together the truth, a secret network of former Nazi scientists, exiled physicists and renegade agents emerges. And they discovered that this "accidental encounter" had been designed from the beginning. An equation, three keys, a closing wall. In the last moments of freedom before the Berlin Wall was built, three souls must make the ultimate choice between national loyalty and human conscience.