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A Hole in Texas
A Hole in Texas
Author: Herman Wouk
Guy Carpenter is a physicist with a quiet,settled life: a prestigious job at NASA, a devoted wife and new baby, and a troublemaking cat. But he is about to get mixed up in an international scandal of enormous proportions. — Years ago, Guy worked on the Superconducting Super Collider, a giant government project dedicated to detecting a tiny, elusi...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780316525909
ISBN-10: 0316525901
Publication Date: 4/14/2004
Pages: 288
Rating:
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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3.3 stars, based on 12 ratings
Publisher: Little, Brown
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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enjoyed this one much more than i would have thought. wouk did a great job of rolling the super-collider science story into a very warm tale.
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barbsis avatar reviewed A Hole in Texas on + 1076 more book reviews
This is the first novel by Herman Wouk for me and I must say that I really liked it. When the Chinese beat the US to the Higgs boson, astrophysicist, Guy Carpenter gets caught up in the hoopla and has to appear before a congressional hearing on possible charges of a breach in national security. His relationship with the top Chinese scientist and his secret post office box, get him in water with his wife.

There's a lot going on and when the talk involves the superconduction super collider, it gets rather technical. I didn't understand the half of it but it didn't have any impact in my enjoyment of the story.


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