The never-before-told story of American spies in Africa in the Second World War reveals one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the war " America's efforts to secure enough uranium to build atomic bombs and to keep it out of the hands of Germany and Japan.

Includes maps of: Transport Routes between the Belgian Congo and the U.S., 1943-1945; Continent of Africa in the Years of the Second World War; Routes Used to Deliver Uranium from Shinkolobwe to the Coast; [Belgian Congo Sketch Map, Showing Shinkolobwe and Vicinity, 13 APR 1943]. "First published in the United Kingdom in 2016 by C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd."--Title page verso. Filmography: page 329.

Letter from Albert Einstein to President Roosevelt, 2 August 1939 -- 1. Introduction: The Manhattan Project and Shinkolobwe -- 2. TETON -- 3. CRISP -- 4. CRUMB -- 5. Chief of Station, Congo -- 6. 'Attention! Bloc radioactif!' -- 7. ANGELLA -- 8. 'Born secret' -- 9. The mission -- 10. The British opposites -- 11. FLARE -- 12. The cutout -- 13. LOCUST -- 14. 'Hotbed of spies' -- 15. Framed -- 16. Collaborating with the Nazis -- 17. A dead shot -- 18. Stehli the detective -- 19. 'One minute to midnight' -- 20. Hiroshima -- 21. Atomic spies -- 22. Conclusion: The missing link.