The Omega Deception

by Charles Robertson

1943, atomic scientist Niels Bohr makes a breathtaking escape out of Nazi-occupied Denmark. But something has gone terribly wrong...... The race is Left behind is a briefcase containing papers of invaluable worth. Devastating secrets that could mean salvation for the crumbling Reich. Across two continents, three world powers battle to retrieve the missing documents.

Genres: Espionage, Thriller, Fiction

360 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[Laura Czarnecki · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first read this book in the 80s when it was published, and just revisited finding an old book on the internet. This book is still a great read! Obviously, I've read much between then and now, but I highly recommend this book and author... A complex, intriguing, and fun story line with lots of history interjected- a really good read. The story line kept getting better and better! If you are a WWII history buff who enjoys a good mystery, this is a great book for you.

[Rob Leininger · Rating 5 out of 5]

A terrific WWII thriller, with bad Nazis and good guys and spies and . . . deception. Many of the main Nazi characters actually existed and were described accurately.

[David Marriott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun WWII-era spy thriller -- tons of characters, plus two fabulous twists in the back third of the book.

[Mark Holmes · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book starts out with the execution of a Nazi named Ernst Luddeck for failure in a Berlin prison just before Germany's defeat in 1945. The rest of the novel tells the story of what brought about his ruin.

The great Danish physicist Niels Bohr was plucked out of his Nazi-occupied homeland by the British military, but inadvertently left his research notes behind, and a task force is assembled to retrieve his notebook, which might be crucial to the success of the Manhattan Project...or the Nazis' own atomic bomb project.

Thousands of miles to the west, on the other side of the Atlantic in New York, veteran New York police detective Nicholas Falzetti deals with a suicide in which a man jumps from an upper-floor window of a cheap hotel, while inside the room, he finds a man shot to death. The desk clerk is sure that the dead men were gays who were there for a tryst--very common at that hotel. But when Falzetti finds that one of the men had a top-level government security clearance, the medical examiner tells Falzetti that both men's bodies were full of sodium pentothal and the FBI starts interfering with his investigation, Falzetti realizes that it was much more than that, and finds that he has stumbled into international espionage involving the US government, the British government and Germany's Nazi government. In fact, he becomes the unlikely key to foiling a Nazi plot to steal the secrets of American atom bomb research, which is what eventually gets Luddeck shot as Nazidom collapses in flames around him.

Charles Robertson's opinion of the FBI seems to be very low; they are consistently portrayed as bumbling, arrogant, callow morons, which is why I took off a star. They probably knew their work better than that. Yet Robertson knows how to write a riveting story and his war details seem well-researched. Many of the characters in the novel, like Bohr, Dwight Eisenhower, and Bernard Law Montgomery, were real people who seem authentically portrayed.

[Gary Barrentine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good story with some good twists.