{ "item_title" : "Los Alamos", "item_author" : [" Joseph Kanon "], "item_description" : "NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The suspense novel for all others to beat . . . a] must read.--The Denver Post WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world's most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who have come to Robert Oppenheimer 's enchanted campus of foreign-born scientists, baffled guards, and restless wives is a simple man in search of a killer. Michael Connolly has been sent to the middle of nowhere to investigate the murder of a security officer on the Manhattan Project. But amid the glimmering cocktail parties and the staggering genius, Connolly will find more than he bargained for. Sleeping in a dead man's bed and making love to another man's wife, Connolly has entered the moral no-man's-land of Los Alamos. For in this place of brilliance and discovery, hope and horror, Connolly is plunged into a shadowy war with a killer--as the world is about to be changed forever. Praise for Los Alamos A magnificent work of fiction . . . a love story inside a murder mystery inside perhaps the most significant story of the twentieth century: the making of the atomic bomb.--The Boston GlobeCompelling . . . Joseph Kanon] pulls the reader into a historical drama of excitement and high moral seriousness. --The New York Times Thrilling . . . Kanon writes with the sure hand of a veteran and does a marvelous job.--The Washington Post Book World", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/52/562/160/0525621601_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "20.00", "online_price" : "20.00", "our_price" : "20.00", "club_price" : "20.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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