Kanon recreates the most compelling real-life drama of this century--an audacious flight of the imagination which interweaves real and fictional figures to create a powerful "what-if" novel of historical intrigue. Spring 1945: As work on the first atom bomb nears completion in New Mexico, Manhattan Project security officer Karl Bruner is found murdered. Is Bruner's killing the result of a violent sexual encounter, or part of a plot that threatens to jeopardize the project itself?
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Kanon recreates the most compelling real-life drama of this century--an audacious flight of the imagination which interweaves real and fictional figures to create a powerful "what-if" novel of historical intrigue. Spring 1945: As work on the first atom bomb nears completion in New Mexico, Manhattan Project security officer Karl Bruner is found murdered. Is Bruner's killing the result of a violent sexual encounter, or part of a plot that threatens to jeopardize the project itself?
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Like New dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x10; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Signed on Full Title Page First Printing. Tiny rainbow to the head. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Author of THE GOOD GERMAN.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 6.25"x9.5" 403 pgs. Almond boards. Cream spine w/gold metallic letters. Designed by Terry Karydes. DJ designed by Roberto De Vicq de Cumptich. Jacket photo by Jack Delano. Author photo by Marion Ettlinger. Author's first novel. MP6CC along gutter in next to last page. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (price), & unmarked. Secures ship w/track #. Spring 1945. As work on the first atomic bomb nears completion on a remote mesa in New Mexico, Karl Bruner, a Manhattan Project security officer, is found murdered in nearby Santa Fe. Is Bruner the victim of a violent sexual encounter, as the local police believe, or is his death a crime that threatens to jeopardize the secret of the Project itself? This is the mainspring of Joseph Kanon's Los Alamos, a supremely original and romantic new thriller that re-creates the most compelling real-life drama of this century. Interweaving fact and fiction, Los Alamos is at once a powerful novel of historical intrigue and a vivid portrait of those involved in the Manhattan Project: Robert Oppenheimer, its charismatic scientific director; General Groves, its blunt Army commander; and the brilliant team of scientists whose work would change the world forever. Like the invention at its core, Los Alamos is about fusion--of loyalty and betrayal, idealism and guilt--and its deadly aftermath. Elegantly written and deftly constructed, Los Alamos marks the emergence of a major new storytelling talent. Source: Publisher.
