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Joan Stanley is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information, including details on the building of the atomic bomb, to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging...

The story begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents rachel and Stephan about their former colleague David. All three have been venerated for decades by israel because of the secret mission they embarked on for their country back in 1965-1966, when the trio tracked down Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel, the Surgeon of Birkenau, in East Berlin. The team's mission was accomplished-or was it?