Book
Black sun : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385543408
- ISBN: 0385543409
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Physical Description:
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305 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2019]
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | The city that doesn't exist -- Burned and blinded -- Scoured, melted and blown away -- I am become death. |
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| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Fiction. History. Suspense fiction. Historical fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
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- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Castlegar Public Library | FIC MAT (Text) | 35146002174613 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Prince Rupert Library | Matt (Text) | 33294002057255 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Grand Forks | FIC MAT (Text) | 35142002683711 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"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"-- - Baker & Taylor
Days before the test of the world's largest nuclear device, a KGB officer in 1961 Russia investigates the murder of the bomb's architect, unraveling a conspiracy that poses apocalyptic threats. - Baker & Taylor
Days before the test of the world's largest nuclear device, a KGB officer in 1961 Russia investigates the murder of the bomb's architect, unraveling a conspiracy that poses apocalyptic threats. A first novel by the author of Stalin's Children. - Random House, Inc.
"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.
