Black sun : a novel / Owen Matthews.
By: Matthews, Owen [author.].
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Doubleday, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First edition.Description: 305 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780385543408; 0385543409.Subject(s): Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- Employees -- Fiction | 1953-1985 | Physicists -- Crimes against -- Soviet Union -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | High-altitude nuclear explosions -- Fiction | FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense | FICTION / Historical / General | FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage | Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985 -- Fiction | Soviet UnionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. | Fiction. | History. | Mystery fiction. | Suspense fiction. | Historical fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction) | Novels.Additional physical formats: Online version:: Black sunItem type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Voorhees | Fiction | Adult | F Mat (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 05000010511199 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
" Black Sun is fascinating and has fearsome authenticity."
--Frederick Forsyth, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"Thrilling and suspenseful."
--Simon Sebeag Montefiore, New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs
"To call the novel chilling is an understatement."
--Booklist (starred review)
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...as long as they complete the project and prove to their capitalist enemies that the USSR now commands the heights of nuclear supremacy.
With intricately plotted machinations, secrets and surveillance, corrupt politicos and puppet masters in the Politburo, and one devastating weapon, Owen Matthews has crafted a timely, terrific, and fast-paced thriller set at the height--and in the heart--of Soviet power.
The city that doesn't exist -- Burned and blinded -- Scoured, melted and blown away -- I am become death.
"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