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In Search of Klingsor

✍ Scribed by Jorge Volpi

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year: 1999
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 306 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

Already an international bestseller, ’In Search of Klingsor’ traces an American physicist’s thrilling search to unmask Hitler’s chief science advisor, the man whose work on the German atomic bomb threatened Allied security.

In 1946, Francis Bacon, a brilliant young American physicist, is pursuing research under the guidance of Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel and other great minds of modern science. But because of a series of personal indiscretions he is forced to accept an altogether different, more sinister, assignment: uncover ’Klingsor’, Hitler’s foremost advisor on the atomic bomb. But who is Klingsor and where might he be found?

Bacon’s efforts to expose the truth take him to Germany and to Gustav Links, a survivor of the failed attempt to kill Hitler in 1944. With Links at his side, Bacon is able to reconstruct a map of European maths and physics and embark on a journey that will lead him to some of the greatest scientific thinkers of...

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