Meet Zelly, an American spy in the Reich

What if everything you thought you knew about yourself turned out to be a lie?

Starting in 1940, The Eagle Scout Picture follows Fred Brown, a 17-year-old electronics whiz-kid and son of immigrant parents, after being secretly recruited by the American government as a deep-cover mole in Nazi Germany. When Brown finds his Eagle Scout court of honor picture on the cover of a Nazi magazine published in1938, he struggles to understand how that is possible and discovers everything he knows about his mission, recruitment, family, and life… is all an elaborate lie.

When Fred arrives in Nazi Germany, his forged identity is Frederich “Zelly” Zellner. In his first minutes in the country, he meets Herr Stengler, a Gestapo agent, and commits an act of disobedience that makes Stengler suspicious.

After training, the Germans use Zelly’s electronic skills to design and build rockets, the dreaded V-2. Zelly struggles with competing desires—stopping the rockets to save allied lives and his obsession with making them fly. The discovery of additional lies challenges his sanity. As Stengler gathers information toward an arrest for treason, the possibilities of surviving to return home grow dimmer.

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