Los Alamos A Novel |
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Author:
| Kanon, Joseph |
ISBN: | 978-0-440-22407-5 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1998 |
Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Island Books |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $7.99 |
Book Description:
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The suspense novel for all others to beat . . . [a] must read."--The Denver Post WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world's most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who have come to Robert Oppenheimer 's "enchanted campus" of foreign-born scientists, baffled...
More Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The suspense novel for all others to beat . . . [a] must read."--The Denver Post
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL
It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world's most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who have come to Robert Oppenheimer 's "enchanted campus" of foreign-born scientists, baffled guards, and restless wives is a simple man in search of a killer. Michael Connolly has been sent to the middle of nowhere to investigate the murder of a security officer on the Manhattan Project. But amid the glimmering cocktail parties and the staggering genius, Connolly will find more than he bargained for. Sleeping in a dead man's bed and making love to another man's wife, Connolly has entered the moral no-man's-land of Los Alamos. For in this place of brilliance and discovery, hope and horror, Connolly is plunged into a shadowy war with a killer--as the world is about to be changed forever.
Praise for Los Alamos
"A magnificent work of fiction . . . a love story inside a murder mystery inside perhaps the most significant story of the twentieth century: the making of the atomic bomb."--The Boston Globe
"Compelling . . . [Joseph Kanon] pulls the reader into a historical drama of excitement and high moral seriousness." --The New York Times
"Thrilling . . . Kanon writes with the sure hand of a veteran and does a marvelous job."--The Washington Post Book World