Los Alamos : a novel / by Joseph Kanon. Kanon, Joseph.

New York : Broadway Books, c1997.

403 p. ; 25 cm.

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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.

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