While war raged in Europe, the battle for America’s soul was already underway. Blending fact and fiction, MIDNIGHT PATRIOTS follows real-life friends Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin as they confront powerful enemies threatening the United States from within. It’s 1940. Europe is in flames. Germany occupies much of the continent, and the Blitz rains terror on London. Fritz Duquesne, a German spy straight from the history books, plots to kidnap Einstein and steal America’s nuclear secrets. Enraged by Chaplin’s mockery in The Great Dictator, Adolf Hitler dispatches an SS assassin to silence the man who ridiculed him. The story features Charles Lindbergh, Lena Horne, and J. Robert Oppenheimer—along with a dangerous German spy on a mission of her own. As Nazi agents and FBI operatives close in, all roads lead Einstein and Chaplin to a deadly showdown aboard the Santa Fe Super Chief as it races from Chicago to Los Angeles. MIDNIGHT PATRIOTS is the second novel in the Einstein–Chaplin Series. The first entry, MIDNIGHT BURNING, was named Historical Thriller of the Year by Best Thrillers Book Review and one of Bookreporter’s Favorite Books of 2025. The novels stand alone and may be read in any order.