Interesting book by Sam Bourne. James Zennor is a scientist at Oxford University during the 2nd World War. His wife and son disappear one day and he has to trace them to find that they have been whisked away to Yale University in the U.S., purportedly to save them from the expected German invasion. James follows them with difficulty to Yale, finding out that they do not seem to be anywhere, but he starts seeing proof of a conspiracy within Yale University, having to do with all the families that were sent from Oxford to the U.S. The strange thing is that these Oxford families seem to have been selected very consciously and they all are the wives and children of extremely intelligent people.

He finds that the conspiracy involves keeping the U.S. out of the War and to try to raise a race of supermen once the war is finished.

Interesting twist on real events and a period of history whereto U.S. had not yet entered the War, the author has created a gripping tale of mystery and has done a good job.