Los Alamos: A Novel

Joseph Kanon

Los Alamos: A Novel
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
4 September 2018
Pages
480
ISBN
9780525621607

Los Alamos: A Novel

Joseph Kanon

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

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