Los Alamos
In 1945 an intelligence officer is sent to Los Alamos to solve a murder while Oppenheimer's scientists race to test the atomic bomb.
Joseph Kanon’s first novel, published in 1997, is set in the closing months of the Second World War at Los Alamos, where J. Robert Oppenheimer’s scientists are racing to test the first atomic bomb. Michael Connolly, a former reporter working as an army intelligence liaison, arrives to investigate the murder of a security officer and is drawn into the secrets of the project and the people keeping them. It won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel.
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Lee Child
Joseph Kanon was a successful publishing exec who grew tired of commuting from New York to Boston. So he quit and tried his hand at writing, mining recent history for fascinating stories, starting with the A-bomb's development. What if his job had been just a subway stop away?
Article · May 2013
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