About this item
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.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.
About the Author
Stephen Kiernan's newest book is UNIVERSE OF TWO, which comes out on Aug. 4, 2020. A former newspaper journalist, he has written three other novels (The Baker's Secret, The Hummingbird, The Curiosity) and two books of nonfiction (Last Rights, Authentic Patriotism) . With rights of his books purchased for TV and film production, and novels translated into many languages, his work has won more than 40 awards. He lives in Vermont with his two amazing sons.
