Black Sun A Novel Based On An Incredible True Story
Black Sun A Novel Based On An Incredible True Story
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Description: The "kind of thriller you want to savor as you turn the pages" (New York Journal of Books) set at the height and in the heart of Soviet power with intricately plotted machinations secrets and surveillance corrupt politicos and puppet masters in the Politburo and one devastating weapon. It is the dawn of the 1960s. In order to investigate the gruesome death of a brilliant young physicist KGB officer Major Alexander Vasin must leave Moscow for Arzamas - 16, a top secret research city that does not appear on any map. There he comes up against the brightest most cutthroat brain trust in Russia who on the orders of Nikita Khrushchev himself are building a nuclear weapon with 3,800 times the destructive potential of the Hiroshima bomb. 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 so long as they complete the project and prove to their capitalist enemies that the USSR now commands the heights of nuclear supremacy.
Title: Black Sun A Novel Based On An Incredible True Story
Barcode: 9780525436119
Publication Date: 6/23/2020
Series: The Black Sun Trilogy
Title: Black Sun A Novel Based On An Incredible True Story
Barcode: 9780525436119
Publication Date: 6/23/2020
Series: The Black Sun Trilogy