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Critical Mass

✍ Scribed by Steve Martini

Book ID: 100173285
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Putnam Inc ,Us
Year: 2011;2000
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 341 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1101550236

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Jocelyn "Joss" Cole, a burned-out public defender from L.A., has opted for a quieter life in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Joss has no significant clients other than a group of commercial fisherman suffering from a strange and serious illness, a condition that doctors cannot diagnose, and which Joss believes has an industrial cause. Then into her office comes Dean Belden, a well-heeled client in search of a lawyer to help him set up a business in the islands. Within days Belden is subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury. Less than an hour after testifying, and before Joss can discover what happened in the secrecy of the grand jury room, Belden dies in a fiery explosion of his float plane on Seattle's Lake Union. Gideon Van Ry is a nuclear fission expert and a scholar in residence at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California. One of his duties is to update the Center's database, an extensive catalog listing fissionable materials and...

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