Elderly German-born American physics Nobel laureate. He refuses a communist agent's request to defect and is subsequently kidnapped, replaced by an impostor who takes his place at the ceremony. Held captive on a German freighter alongside Inger, he is rescued by Andrew Craig, suffers cardiac arrest from the ordeal, is revived on the spot, and attends the award ceremony.
Both are Nobel Prize winners attending the same ceremony, establishing a professional peer relationship.
A long-standing personal connection that becomes the conduit for political coercion.
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