Set during the Great Depression, when fascism was looking increasingly attractive to many, Paul M. Levitt s latest novel surrounds attempts to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the counterforces at work: the American Nazi Party, Avery Brundage, a German assassin, and those American athletes eighteen of whom were the first black athletes hoping to compete wishing to show the world their superb talents. When a young woman in the employ of Abner Longie...