Bones of betrayal / Jefferson Bass.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : HarperLuxe, c2009.Edition: 1st HarperLuxe edDescription: 438 p. (large print) : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0061787574
- 9780061787577
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Large Print Book | Main Library | Large Print Fiction | MYSTERY Bass Jef | BF 4 | Available | 33111005500588 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"The forensic thriller meets a formidable slice of history....A riveting mystery with an intricately emotional conclusion."
--Washington Post
Bones of Betrayal is the fourth heart-racing "Body Farm" thriller from the world's top forensic anthropologist. Kathy Reichs calls author Jefferson Bass, "the real deal," and his hero Bill Brockton has already taken his rightful place alongside Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta and the investigators on TV's "C.S.I." In Bones of Betrayal, a hideous murder has links that connect it to World War Two's Manhattan Project and the development of the atomic bomb--adding a fascinating historical element that enriches an already superior crime series.
"A Body Farm novel"--Jacket.
Body Farm founder Dr. Bill Brockton and his graduate assistant, Miranda Lovelady, are called to investigate a body discovered in Oak Ridge, a town better known as the home of the atomic bomb during World War II. The forensic detectives identify the victim as Dr. Leonard Novak, a renowned physicist and designer of a plutonium reactor integral to the Manhatten Project. They also discover that he died from a searing dose of radioactivity. Brockton enlists the help of a beautiful, enigmatic librarian as he seeks to peel back the layers of Novak's life to the secret at its core. The physicist's house and personal life yield few clues beyond a faded roll of undeveloped film, but everything changes when Brockton chances upon Novak's ninety-year-old ex-wife, Beatrice. Charming and utterly unreliable, she takes him on a trip back into Oak Ridge's wartime past, deep into the shadows of the nuclear race where things were not quite as they seemed.