THE

ACCIDENTAL
AGENT

A Jimmy Nessheim Novel

ANDREW
ROSENHEIM

In this gripping third book in Andrew Rosenheim’s critically acclaimed Jimmy Nessheim series, the fate of America’s fledgling nuclear program and the outcome of World War II itself are at stake.

Fall, 1942. Special Agent James Nessheim has quit the FBI and enrolled as a law student at the University of Chicago. It isn’t long before his former boss, Assistant Director Harry Guttman, comes to call, determined to persuade Nessheim to accept a new and exceedingly dangerous assignment.

Deep under the stands of the University’s unused football stadium, legendary physicist Enrico Fermi and a team of scientists are working round the clock on what will come to be known as the Manhattan Project. This top-secret work could change not only the course of the war but the very face of war itself. The White House has learned that a Nazi agent may have infiltrated Fermi’s staff. It falls to Nessheim to find the spy before the secrets of nuclear weapons are lost to the Germans.

Nessheim’s mission is complicated by the return of an old flame, Stacey Madison. As his personal and professional lives collide, Nessheim uncovers an unexpected conspiracy that threatens to sabotage America’s efforts to win the war. It is a race against time, as the world stands on the threshold of mankind’s most lethal weapon.