Los Alamos

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Author(s)\Editor(s): Kanon, Joseph – – Binding: QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKSYearMonthDay of Publication: 20180904Standardized Book Category: Thrillers – EspionageLanguage: \n \n EnglishPage Count: \n \n 00480Publisher Marketing: \n \n 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