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 a…
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In 1945, Michael Connolly has been sent to Los Alamos to investigate the murder of a security officer of the Manhattan project.
"It is the spring of 1945. And Michael Connolly has been sent to Los Alamos 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 …
A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North.
The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
When Lord of the Flies appeared in 1954 it received unprecedented reviews for a first novel. Critics used such phrases as "beautifully written, tragic and provocative ... vivid and enthralling ... this beautiful and desparate book ... completely convincing and often very frighte…
A horror story about a group of boys, who after being cut off from society, revert to brutal, primitive tribalism.
A fable of ship-wrecked children turning to primitive savagery that portrays the collapse of social order into chaos. At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom i…