The dead don't bleed
Subtitle: a novel
By: David Krugler
Edition: First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781681771397
Subjects: Communism; Investigation; World War, 1939-1945; Atomic bomb; History; Murder; World War Two; Fiction
Other titles: Dead do not bleed
Description: "In a gripping World War II mystery set in Washington, D.C., a young naval intelligence officer goes undercover to solve a murder and prevent the Soviets from stealing the secrets of America's atomic bomb project. Washington D.C., 1945. Victory in the war looms, but a new fear transfixes the wartime capital. Fear of communist spies and the atomic secrets they covet. When the corpse of a Navy Intelligence officer is found on a cobblestone back alley, Lt. Voigt is called in to investigate. It's his first murder, but in the plot that he quickly begins unraveling, it won't be his last. Pursuing crosses and double-crosses, Voigt goes undercover and the fragments he discovers (a defecting German physicist, a top secret lab in New Mexico, and Uranium-235) suggest something far larger than the usual spy v. spy shenanigans. Soon enough he's in a race to identify the killer, to keep the bomb away from the Russians -- and to keep ahead of his own secrets."--