 Los Alamos
by Joseph Kanon
Published 1998
In a dusty, remote community of secretly constructed buildings and awesome possibility, the world's most brilliant minds have come together. 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, an unraveler of human secrets -- a man in search of a killer.
It is the spring of 1945. And Michael Connolly has been sent to Los Alamos 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 discovery and secrecy, 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 historical drama of excitement and high moral seriousness . . . The power of Los Alamos builds effectively, and its payoff is the best kind of surprise, one that makes you slap your forehead and exclaim ‘But of course!’”
--The New York Times
“It’s a love story inside a murder mystery inside perhaps the most significant story of the twentieth century: the making of the atomic bomb . . . A stunning achievement.”
--The Boston Globe
"A well-plotted novel that effortlessly dissolves real people and events into an elegant and moving thriller."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"The suspense novel for all others to beat...[a] must-read."
--The Denver Post
Paperback | February 1998 | $7.99 | 0-4402-2407-1
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