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Black sun : a novel

Matthews, Owen (author.).

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"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385543408
  • ISBN: 0385543409
  • Physical Description: print
    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.
Subject: Soviet Union. -- Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- Employees -- Fiction
Physicists -- Crimes against -- Soviet Union -- Fiction
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
High-altitude nuclear explosions -- Fiction
Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985 -- Fiction
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
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 -

Owen Matthews reported on conflicts in Bosnia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq and Ukraine and was Newsweek Magazine's Bureau Chief in Moscow from 2006-2016. He is the author of several nonfiction books including Stalin's Children, Glorious Misadventures and An Impeccable Spy.


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