Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. FLATSIGNED.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 416 pages; Physical description: 416p. ; 22cm. Subjects: Murder - Investigation - New Mexico - Fiction. Summary: From the former head of Houghton Mifflin's trade division, a first thriller set at Los Alamos during the later stages of the building of the atomic bomb.
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Well written, nicely constructed, enthralling (TIME OUT)
Brilliantly captures the burgeoning cold-war paranoia (OBSERVER)
Echoes Robert Harri s' ENIGMA (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
This debut could do for the Manhattan Project what ENIGMA did for Bletchley Park. (THE BOOKSELLER)
Reseña del editor:
In the closing weeks of the war in Europe a security guard on the Manhattan Project is murdered near the Hill. Michael Connolly is sent to Los Alamos from Washington to make sure his death really is the result of a casual homosexual encounter and not connected with espionage. The Nazi regime may be near the end of its reign, but the new enemy of communism has created an atmosphere of paranoia as Oppenheimer and his team come ever closer to concluding the experiment. Connolly is intrigued by the characters on the Hill, by the mixed European background of the victim and, passionately, by the English wife of one of the scientists. He is caught up in the moral dilemmas which the Project is creating, and discovers that there is a difference between professional and personal beliefs.
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- EditorialAbacus
- Año de publicación1997
- ISBN 10 0316640018
- ISBN 13 9780316640015
- EncuadernaciónTapa dura
- Número de edición1
- Número de páginas416
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