NATIONAL BESTSELLER - 'A thriller of a different kind--with an unlikely band of economists and bureaucrats working in the shadows to save the world.'--Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring down the Nazi war machine by crashing their economy in this thrilling novel based on a true story, from the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and bestselling author of The Last Days of Night. This Random House Book Club edition includes an interview with the author, historical photographs, and a discussion guide. 1939. Ansel Luxford has everything a person could want--a comfortable career, a brilliant spouse, a beautiful new baby. But he is obsessed by a belief that Europe is on the precipice of a war that will grow to consume the world. The United States is officially proclaiming neutrality in any foreign conflict, but when Ansel is offered an opportunity to move to Washington, D.C., to join a
