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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The suspense novel for all others to beat . . . a] must Denver Post
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL
It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the worlds 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 mans bed and making love to another mans wife, Connolly has entered the moral no-mans-land of Los Alamos. For in this place of brilliance and discovery, hope and horror, Connolly is plunged into a shadowy war with a killeras 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 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 Washington Post Book World
Author: Joseph Kanon
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 09/04/2018
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780525621607
Language: English
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