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 …
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…