On 16 July at 5.29am, the Manhattan Project achieved its ultimate goal - the explosion of the world's first nuclear bomb. But Eamonn Burke could not have anticipated how the shock waves of that epic, terrifying blast would overwhelm him, fifty years later.
Sent on an uncompromising mission for 'Eon', an obscure German magazine, Burke becomes caught in a maze of falsehoods and sinister threats that leads back to the men at Los Alamos - the legendary nuclear physicists who made the atom bomb. Burke's enquiries take him on a nightmare journey, from Oxford to New Mexico to Moscow and to the arctic desolation of the Icelandic interior. There Burke uncovers a story of shocking violence, betrayal and Cold War deception.
