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"They tell me Joseph Kanon is a publishing executive, but I don't believe it. I think he is a veteran of the 1945 atom bomb program. No one could write a first novel so convincing as Los Alamos without having been there. No one could conjure the wartime background with such subtle restraint. If I'm wrong, Joseph Kanon is an outstanding new writer, and Los Alamos is a triumph of historical re-creation and my sort of story-telling."
--Len Deighton
"Joseph Kanon's Los Alamos is a thoroughly absorbing novel set in the midst of what we now know as both the most exciting scientific saga of our century and the invention with the greatest potential for tragedy that our civilization has yet produced. What begins as the pursuit of a murderer through the landscape of a wartime Southwest quickly descends into a deeper mystery involving eminent scientists, Robert Oppenheimer among them, and the cold calculations of military intelligence. Knowing the aftermath of what happened at Los Alamos, as we do, only deepens the experience of this finely crafted book."
--Stuart Woods, author of Dead in the Water and Dirt
"There really were heroes, spies, and lovers at Los Alamos in the days when they built the first atomic bombs, and in this compelling novel Joe Kanon has imagined those soaring, harrowing days back to life. It's written with verve and intelligence, it's authentic from beginning to end, and I couldn't put it down."
--Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Intricately plotted, highly atmospheric, and stunningly authentic...This is a thinking person's thriller that makes wonderful use of, but never cheapens, one of history's more extraordinary moments...A smashing debut."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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