The Göttingen Conspiracy, Jérôme Legras

June 1954. The lifeless body of William Wein, assistant librarian at Princeton University, is found. Before dying, he manages to draw the letter epsilon on a stele with his blood. Local police deputy chief Michael Rumford is in charge of the investigation. But he, assisted by Inspector Bill Barlowe, will gradually discover that this murder is far from a routine crime... By getting closer to German physicists who fled Nazism, the two investigators find themselves involved with former Wehrmacht accomplices as well as fervent supporters of McCarthyism. Did Albert Einstein plagiarize an article by Henri Poincaré on the discovery of relativity? Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI, tries to blackmail the physicist to ensure that he stops publicly opposing the H-bomb. Industrial espionage, suspicions of communist friendships, wars between scientists against a backdrop of the Iron Curtain, Michael Rumford is not at the end of his troubles.

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