Los Alamos - by Joseph Kanon (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A spy thriller on the making of the atom bomb. The protagonist, counter-intelligence officer Michael Connolly, investigates the murder of a security officer at the Los Alamos compound in 1940s New Mexico. He has an affair with the wife of a foreign physicist and uncovers a spy at the highest level. A first novel.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER - "The suspense novel for all others to beat . . . [a] must read."--<i>The Denver Post</i></b> <p/><b>WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL</b> <p/>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. <p/><b>Praise for </b><i><b>Los Alamos</b></i> <p/>"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."<b>--<i>The Boston Globe</i><br></b><br>"Compelling . . . [Joseph Kanon] pulls the reader into a historical drama of excitement and high moral seriousness." <b>--<i>The New York Times </i></b> <p/>"Thrilling . . . Kanon writes with the sure hand of a veteran and does a marvelous job."<b>--<i>The Washington Post Book World </i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A magnificent work of fiction . . . It's a love story inside a murder mystery inside perhaps the most significant story of the 20th century: the making of the atomic bomb. . . . A stunning achievement."<b><i>--The Boston Globe</i></b> <p/> "Compelling . . . [Joseph Kanon] pulls the reader into a historical drama of excitement and high moral seriousness."<b><i>--The New York Times</i></b> <p/> "Thrilling . . . Kanon writes with the sure hand of a veteran and does a marvelous job."<b><i>--The Washington Post Book World</i></b> <p/> "An elegant and moving thriller."<b><i>--San Francisco Chronicle</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Joseph Kanon</b> is the internationally bestselling author of eight novels, which have been published in twenty-four languages, including: <i>Los Alamos, </i> which won the Edgar Award for best first novel, <i>The Good German, </i> which was made into a film starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett, <i>The Prodigal Spy, Alibi, </i>which earned Kanon the Hammett Award of the International Association of Crime Writers, <i>Istanbul Passage, </i>and <i>Leaving Berlin</i>. He is also a recipient of the Anne Frank Human Writers Award for his writings on the aftermath of the Holocaust. He lives in New York City with his wife, literary agent Robin Straus. They have two sons.
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