Los Alamos: A Novel

In spring 1945, the world's most brilliant scientists have gathered in a remote, secret community to work on splitting the atom and ending the war. Michael Connolly, a security investigator, arrives at Robert Oppenheimer's Los Alamos facility to investigate the murder of a security officer on the Manhattan Project. Among the foreign-born scientists, guards, and restless wives, Connolly pursues his investigation. As he becomes entangled in the social world of cocktail parties and scientific achievement, he finds himself sleeping in a dead man's bed and involved with another man's wife. Caught between brilliant minds and hidden dangers, Connolly must navigate a shadowy conflict with a killer while the world stands on the brink of transformation.