Barcelona, summer 1909. When the scientist and explorer Randolph Foulkes is blown up in a random terrorist bomb attack, private detective Harry Lawton is hired by the man’s widow to identify the beneficiary of a large payment Foulkes had made shortly before his death. Lawton’s arrival in the
Black sun: a novel
✍ Scribed by Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti;Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.;Matthews, Owen
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 214 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Soviet Union,Soviet Union.
- ISBN
- 0385543417
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✦ Synopsis
"A chilling and cinematic thriller set in 1961 in one of the most secretive locations in Soviet history. Ten days before the test of largest nuclear device in history--the Tsar Bomba--a KGB officer must investigate the murder of one of the architects of the bomb, and unravel a conspiracy that could set the world on fire"--;1961, Arzamas-16, a top-secret research city that does not appear on any map. RDS-220 is a project of such vital national importance that, unlike everyone else in the Soviet Union, the scientists of Arzamas-16 are free to think and act, live and love as they wish-- as long as they complete the project, and build the most powerful nuclear device ever known. When a young physicist is found dead, KGB officer Major Alexander Vasin is sent to investigate. It is a city full of secrets-- including one that could extinguish all human life on the planet. -- adapted from jacket;The city that doesn't exist -- Burned and blinded -- Scoured, melted and blown away -- I am become death.
✦ Subjects
Soviet Union
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