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Black sun : a novel
- Title
- Black sun : a novel / Owen Matthews.
- Author
- Matthews, Owen
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, [2019]
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-8516 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 305 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "A chilling and cinematic thriller set in 1961 in one of the most secretive locations in Soviet history. Ten days before the test of largest nuclear device in history--the Tsar Bomba--a KGB officer must investigate the murder of one of the architects of the bomb, and unravel a conspiracy that could set the world on fire"--
- 1961, Arzamas-16, a top-secret research city that does not appear on any map. 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-- as long as they complete the project, and build the most powerful nuclear device ever known. When a young physicist is found dead, KGB officer Major Alexander Vasin is sent to investigate. It is a city full of secrets-- including one that could extinguish all human life on the planet. -- adapted from jacket
- Subjects
- Soviet Union
- High-altitude nuclear explosions > Fiction
- 1953-1985
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Soviet Union > Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti > Employees > Fiction
- FICTION / Historical / General
- History
- Murder > Investigation > Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage
- FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Soviet Union > History > 1953-1985 > Fiction
- Novels
- Physicists > Crimes against > Soviet Union > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Thrillers (Fiction).
- Historical fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Novels.
- Contents
- The city that doesn't exist -- Burned and blinded -- Scoured, melted and blown away -- I am become death.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-8516
- ISBN
- 9780385543408
- 0385543409
- LCCN
- 2018043265
- OCLC
- 1057244226
- Author
- Matthews, Owen, author.
- Title
- Black sun : a novel / Owen Matthews.
- Publisher
- New York : Doubleday, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1953-1985
- Other Form:
- Online version: Matthews, Owen, author. Black sun First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2019] 9780385543415 (DLC) 2018048828
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-8516