Black Sun: A Novel Based on an Incredible True Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780525436119)

The "kind of thriller you want to savor as you turn the pages" (New York Journal of Books), set at the height--and in the heart--of Soviet power, with intricately plotted machinations, secrets and surveillance, corrupt politicos and puppet masters in the Politburo, and one devastating weapon.

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, so long as they complete the project and prove to their capitalist enemies that the USSR now commands the heights of nuclear supremacy.

Author: Owen Matthews
ISBN-10: 0525436111
ISBN-13: 9780525436119
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/23/2020
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d