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Book Review of Los Alamos

Los Alamos
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Spring 1945. As work on the first atomic bobm nears completion on a remote mesa in New Mexico, Karl Bruner, a Manhatten Project security officer, is found murdered in nearby Santa Fe. Is Bruner the victim of a violent sexual encounter as the local police believe, or is his death a crime that threatens to jeopardize the secret of the Project itself?