While war raged in Europe, the battle for America's soul was already underway.
Blending fact and fiction, MIDNIGHT PATRIOTS follows real-life friends Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin as they confront powerful enemies threatening America.
Germany wants Einstein alive. Chaplin dead.
Spies, assassins, a femme fatale board the Super Chief.
Last stop: showdown at midnight.
It's 1940. Europe is in flames. Germany occupies much of the continent, and the Blitz rains terror on London. Fritz Duquesne, a German spy straight from the history books, plots to kidnap Einstein and steal America's nuclear secrets. Enraged by Chaplin's mockery in The Great Dictator, Adolf Hitler dispatches an SS assassin to silence the man who ridiculed him.
The story features Charles Lindbergh, Lena Horne and J. Robert Oppenheimer --- along with a beautiful German spy on a mission of her own. As Nazi agents and FBI operatives close in, all roads lead Einstein and Chaplin to a deadly showdown aboard the Santa Fe Super Chief as it races from Chicago to Los Angeles.
MIDNIGHT PATRIOTS is the second novel in the Einstein-Chaplin series. The first entry, MIDNIGHT BURNING, was named "Historical Thriller of the Year" by Best Thrillers Book Review and one of the "Favorite Books of 2025" by Bookreporter. The books stand alone and may be read in any order.
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