As Hitler's invasion of Poland nears, American secret agent David Nathan races to find and defuse a German bomb aboard the luxury liner "Normandie", which happens to be carrying France's gold bullion across the Atlantic...
Outrunning Hitler is set in Berlin in 1936. The famous young Negro sprinter, Jesse Owens, is heading to the 1936 Berlin Olympics to prove he is the fastest man alive and, in the process, demonstrate the Nazi theories of racial superiority are rubbish...