num_pages: 517
description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The suspense novel for all others to beat . . . [a] must read.”— The Denver PostWINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVELIt is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world’s most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their 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 the making of the atomic bomb.” — The Boston Globe“Compelling . . . [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 
language: English
title: Los Alamos: A Novel
titlecomplete: Los Alamos: A Novel
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Espionage, Crime, World War II
ratings_count: 3360
places: Los Alamos, New Mexico, New Mexico
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Barry Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Island Books