Robert Robinson

The Third Man is a gripping post-World War II thriller set in the dark and divided city of Vienna, which is still reeling from the war. The novel follows Rollo Martins, a pulp fiction writer, who arrives in Vienna at the invitation of his friend, Harry Lime, only to find that Lime has recently died under suspicious circumstances. As Martins begins to investigate, he uncovers a web of corruption, betrayal, and intrigue involving war profiteering and...

This miniseries opens in Berkeley, California in 1938, where pampered, tenured professors, safe on the shores of peaceful America, dabble in radical politics as the world heads inevitably towards war. J. Robert Oppenheimer is such a one. Two events--one personal, one scientific--combine to change Oppy's life forever and catapult him from a moderately successful theoretician to a world famous figure. First, news of successful fission experiments in...