Los Alamos

Name: Los Alamos
ISBN: 9780316641289

Joseph Kanon

1997·408 pages

Historical Fiction Mystery

espionage historical mystery tense undercover mission who done it

★ Edgar Award (1998) · Winner

“adds a layer of acute perception about recent history that immediately vaults it up into the hallowed heights of John Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Charles McCarry's The Tears of Autumn--thrillers that deserve space next to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky”
— Publishing executive

A successful thriller tells an exciting, satisfying story and lets us look at the lives of some interesting people in an environment either totally new or freshly observed. Former publishing executive Joseph Kanon's first novel does all of that. In the spring of 1945, as the war in Europe is coming to an end, a former police reporter turned Army Intelligence agent named Mike Connolly arrives on the high mesa above Santa Fe, New Mexico, where J. Robert Oppenheimer and a team of scientists are rushing to finish their atomic bomb.

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Los Alamos

Joseph Kanon

★ Edgar Award (1998) · Winner

Year

1997

Pages

408

Historical Fiction Mystery Thriller

Praise

“adds a layer of acute perception about recent history that immediately vaults it up into the hallowed heights of John Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Charles McCarry's The Tears of Autumn--thrillers that deserve space next to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky”
— Publishing executive