Kanon, Joseph
Los Alamos a novel Joseph Kanon. - New York : Dell, 1998, c1997. - 517 p. ; 18 cm.
"Island Books."
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.
0440224071 (pbk.)
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.--New Mexico--Los Alamos
Atomic bomb--History--Fiction.--New Mexico--Los Alamos
Kan 31
Los Alamos a novel Joseph Kanon. - New York : Dell, 1998, c1997. - 517 p. ; 18 cm.
"Island Books."
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.
0440224071 (pbk.)
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.--New Mexico--Los Alamos
Atomic bomb--History--Fiction.--New Mexico--Los Alamos
Kan 31