Bibliograph

Critical mass, Sara Paretsky

Type

Label

Critical mass, Sara Paretsky

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 464-465)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Critical mass

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Sara Paretsky

Series statement

V.I. Warshawski novel, [16]

Summary

V.I. Warshawski's closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel, who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Lotty escaped to London in 1939 on the Kindertransport with a childhood playmate, Kitty Saginor Binder. When Kitty's daughter finds her life is in danger, she calls Lotty, who, in turn, summons V.I. to help. The daughter's troubles turn out to be just the tip of an iceberg of lies, secrets, and silence, whose origins go back to the mad competition among America, Germany, Japan and England to develop the first atomic bomb. The secrets are old, but the people who continue to guard them today will not let go without a fight

Target audience

general

Creator