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A successful thriller tells an exciting, satisfying story and lets us look at the lives of some interesting people in an environment either totally ne w or freshly observed. Former publishing exec...
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A successful thriller tells an exciting, satisfying story and lets us look at the lives of some interesting people in an environment either totally ne w or freshly observed. Former publishing executive Joseph Kanon's first nov el does all of that, and adds a layer of acute perception about recent hist ory that immediately vaults it up into the hallowed heights of John Le Carr e's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Charles McCarry's The Tears of Autumn- -thrillers that deserve space next to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. In the sprin g of 1945, as the war in Europe is coming to an end, a former police report er turned Army Intelligence agent named Mike Connolly arrives on the high m esa above Santa Fe, New Mexico, where J. Robert Oppenheimer and a team of s cientists are rushing to finish their atomic bomb. A security man has been found battered to death, and Connolly's job is to see if it is anything mor e than the sordid sex crime it appears to be. Using a devilishly clever mix ture of real and fictional characters, Kanon spins out a story that manages to be audacious, persuasive--and totally engrossing.
Product Info
ISBN: 0440224071
ISBN-13: 9780440224075
Publisher: Island Books
Year: 1998
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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