description: Drifting through the night, whisper-quiet, they were the most sublime manifestations of a desperate Japanese balloon bombs. Made of rice paper, at once ingenious and deadly, they sailed thousands of miles across the Pacific. Once they started landing, the U.S. scrambled teams to find and defuse them, and then keep them secret from an already anxious public. Eighteen-year-old Louis Belk was one of those men.
language: English
title: The Cloud Atlas
titlecomplete: The Cloud Atlas
genres: Fiction, Contemporary, World War II, Religion, Historical, War, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 2395
places: Alaska
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Thorndike Press