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Los Alamos - Wheeler Large Print Book Series Cloth
Author: Joseph Kanon

Near the end of World War II, high on a mesa overlooking the shimmering New Mexico desert, an international team of scientists has gathered together to build the world's most dangerous weapon. Night and day, month after month, the labs and living quarters of this makeshift community buzz with activity as the top-secret operation draws closer to ... more »its goal: the building of the deadliest bomb in human history. A few more weeks, and the bomb will be completed; a week or two past that, and the war will be instantly and irrevocably ended.

This, of course, is not fiction. Led by Robert Oppenheimer, a team of brilliant scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico did indeed work together on the Manhattan Project, the secret operation to build the world's first atomic bomb. Against this backdrop--and using Oppenheimer as one of the major characters--Joe Kanon has constructed an ingenious and utterly absorbing thriller.

It begins with a murder. In April, 1945, the Project is moving smoothly forward until one evening, a body is discovered in nearby Santa Fe. Local police treat the case with routine suspicion, but when the victim is identified as a scientist from "the Hill," the army launches a covert internal investigation to find the killer. Has the secrecy of the Project been compromised? Is it possible that the slain man, an enigmatic scientist named Bruner, was revealing classified information to the enemy, or were the bizarre circumstances of his death merely evidence of a lovers' quarrel gone horribly wrong?

Michael Connolly, the intelligence officer brought in to crack the case--and then use his PR skills to make it disappear--soon discovers that nothing about Bruner's murder is routine. But in Los Alamos, a place dedicated to keeping secrets, uncovering the truth proves harder than expected. It is only when he falls in love and begins an affair with Emma Pawlowski, the spirited wife of one of the scientists, that Connolly truly begins to weave together the hidden lives and dangerous associations of those at the dark heart of the Project.

In this deft and gripping thriller, Joseph Kanon has created an utterly convincing tale of espionage and love, set against the mist important undercover military operation of our time. Elegantly written and crackling with suspense, Los Alamos marks the emergence of a major new talent.

ISBN-13: 9781568955063
ISBN-10: 1568955065
Publication Date: 12/1997
Pages: 597
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Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc
Book Type: Hardcover
Large Print: Yes
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Genres:

Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> Mystery >> General
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> Authors, A-Z >> ( K ) >> Kanon, Joseph
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> General
Travel >> United States >> Regions >> South >> West South Central

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