Title:Â
Author:Â
Kiernan, Stephen P., author.
ISBN:Â
9780062878441
Summary:Â
"Keynote 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. Internal Description Graduating from Harvard at the height of Wor
Pub Date:Â
2020
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F KIE
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Author:Â
Kiernan, Stephen P., author. Campbell, Cassandra, narrator.
ISBN:Â
9780063016026
Summary:Â
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 task of designing and building the detonator of the atomic bomb. As he performs that work Charlie suffers a crisis of conscience, which his wife, Brenda, unaware of the true nature of Charlie's top-secret task, mistakes as s
Pub Date:Â
2020
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