β Scribed by Stephen P. Kiernan
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"Stephen Kiernan has pulled off the nearly impossible...The most tender, terrifying, relevant book you'll read this year."** -- Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family**
From the critically acclaimed author of The Baker's Secret and The Curiosity comes a novel of conscience, love, and redemption --a fascinating fictionalized account of the life of Charlie Fisk, a gifted mathematician who was drafted into Manhattan Project and ordered against his morals to build the detonator for the atomic bomb. With his musician wife, he spends his postwar life seeking redemption--and they find it together.
Graduating from Harvard at the height of World War II, brilliant mathematician Charlie Fish is assigned to the Manhattan Project. Working with some of the age's greatest scientific minds, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard, Charlie is assigned the...
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